Whew! Two-thirds of the way through AEM. I’m feeling a bit as though I’m scraping the bottom of my well. Sometimes this is when the surprising stuff comes out. No pressure, no pressure, I want to keep it fun. (Talking to myself here.)<\/p>\n
It’s weird… the last few days I feel my efforts have been mediocre. I confess I’ve avoided going to other participants’ blogs or commenting because I’ve been overtaken by a bout of insecurity. There are little voices whispering negative things to me when I look at other people’s art. Your work is not polished. You are not original. You’re unsophisticated. You try to work with too many materials.<\/em> Yadayadayada. The only way I’ve kept the voices quiet is to avoid looking at others’ work, because I’m on the verge of being in the mood to compare negatively. That’s not good for any of us.<\/p>\n We’ll see what I come up with for Day 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whew! Two-thirds of the way through AEM. I’m feeling a bit as though I’m scraping the bottom of my well. Sometimes this is when the surprising stuff comes out. No pressure, no pressure, I want to keep it fun. (Talking to myself here.) It’s weird… the last few days I feel my efforts have been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11443,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions\/11443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}