Comments on: The Divided Heart – Rachel Power http://loobylu.com/archives/000999.htm Dishing the fluff since 1999 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:42:47 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Lisa http://loobylu.com/archives/000999.htm/comment-page-1#comment-17094 Lisa Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:24:48 +0000 archives/000999.htm#comment-17094 I shall buy this book and read it with relish. On Sunday I turned 42. I have 2 sons, ages 12 and 8. I am a physician and own my own business but have a heart of an artist. Indeed, the "art" of medicine is lost in so many ways. But for those of us called to medicine as a vocation, it is the art that calls us. I am at a place in life where the pressure to be career and mother exacted a toll. For me, it was the realization that to live fully on this earth, I must permit myself to grow from the inside. While I am far from being an artist, I have a heart filled with creation: words, food, gardening. What I did not have was permission from my spouse. My heart was dying. So I faced and made a difficult choice. Motherhood, medicine and art(wereever that may lead). Was it better to stay in a marriage where your heart shivels and withers, or risk it? It is a terrifying concept and one not entered rashly or impulsively.But one that was necessary. My sons will benefit (I hope) from the courage to follow the heart into the yonder, eh? Godspeed,Lisa I shall buy this book and read it with relish. On Sunday I turned 42. I have 2 sons, ages 12 and 8. I am a physician and own my own business but have a heart of an artist. Indeed, the “art” of medicine is lost in so many ways. But for those of us called to medicine as a vocation, it is the art that calls us.

I am at a place in life where the pressure to be career and mother exacted a toll. For me, it was the realization that to live fully on this earth, I must permit myself to grow from the inside. While I am far from being an artist, I have a heart filled with creation: words, food, gardening. What I did not have was permission from my spouse. My heart was dying. So I faced and made a difficult choice. Motherhood, medicine and art(wereever that may lead). Was it better to stay in a marriage where your heart shivels and withers, or risk it? It is a terrifying concept and one not entered rashly or impulsively.But one that was necessary. My sons will benefit (I hope) from the courage to follow the heart into the yonder, eh?

Godspeed,Lisa

]]> By: gretchenmist http://loobylu.com/archives/000999.htm/comment-page-1#comment-17077 gretchenmist Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:23:32 +0000 archives/000999.htm#comment-17077 hi, i came across your blog via kirin notebook. . . what a great review. i read the write up in the age last sat or sat before and thought i must get that but promptly forgot. a good reminder, thanku. sounds like something i NEED at the moment! advice that on topics like this, even if it's indirect, definitely resonates :) hi, i came across your blog via kirin notebook. . . what a great review. i read the write up in the age last sat or sat before and thought i must get that but promptly forgot. a good reminder, thanku. sounds like something i NEED at the moment! advice that on topics like this, even if it’s indirect, definitely resonates :)

]]> By: Tammy http://loobylu.com/archives/000999.htm/comment-page-1#comment-17061 Tammy Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:59:56 +0000 archives/000999.htm#comment-17061 I'm going to look up this book, thanks for the recommendation. I’m going to look up this book, thanks for the recommendation.

]]> By: tiel http://loobylu.com/archives/000999.htm/comment-page-1#comment-17058 tiel Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:23:28 +0000 archives/000999.htm#comment-17058 wow. thank you for this. I never seem to be drawn to ' you must read this' stories, but I am somehow. I feel really compelled to read this book! wow. thank you for this. I never seem to be drawn to ‘ you must read this’ stories, but I am somehow. I feel really compelled to read this book!

]]> By: Charm http://loobylu.com/archives/000999.htm/comment-page-1#comment-17019 Charm Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:31:05 +0000 archives/000999.htm#comment-17019 I attended the Melbourne Writers Festival panel 'Art and Motherhood' yesterday which Rachel Power was on as well as 4 other very successful mother artists and I was inspired! I'm not yet a mother nor an artist really but these women have given me a burst of inspiration and reassured my ever questioning mind that yes, I will be able to be a mother and artist. If that is what I want to do. It can happen. Catherine Deveny who was also on the panel had the best advice I think I've ever heard, DO THE ART FIRST! Yes, you need to feed your children and get the bills paid, but do the art! Dont put it off. Dont let it be relegated to the back burner. DO IT! I'll be buying the book to read on my flight to Sydney on Wednesday and will most likely finish it in time to leave it with my best friend who is a new mother. I can always get another copy :) I attended the Melbourne Writers Festival panel ‘Art and Motherhood’ yesterday which Rachel Power was on as well as 4 other very successful mother artists and I was inspired!

I’m not yet a mother nor an artist really but these women have given me a burst of inspiration and reassured my ever questioning mind that yes, I will be able to be a mother and artist. If that is what I want to do. It can happen.

Catherine Deveny who was also on the panel had the best advice I think I’ve ever heard, DO THE ART FIRST! Yes, you need to feed your children and get the bills paid, but do the art! Dont put it off. Dont let it be relegated to the back burner. DO IT!

I’ll be buying the book to read on my flight to Sydney on Wednesday and will most likely finish it in time to leave it with my best friend who is a new mother. I can always get another copy :)

]]> By: Melissa Hicks http://loobylu.com/archives/000999.htm/comment-page-1#comment-17017 Melissa Hicks Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:11:59 +0000 archives/000999.htm#comment-17017 Wow! Sounds very interesting. I am finding that I am getting stuck in my creativity, in as much as I don't venture out to make new, different things like I used to. I think the thing is as I have so little time to create, I feel I don't want to spend the time creating something totally new and then possibly failing. Before I had children I never worried about something that didn't work out, but now I think 'ahh, I wasted 1 hour and have nothing to show for it'. when actually the failures are the stepping stones I need to achieve something better! Clare, thank you so much for giving me some food for thought. I am so excited about you going to Japan for P&C's wedding. Any room in your suitcase??*lol* love,Melissa Wow! Sounds very interesting. I am finding that I am getting stuck in my creativity, in as much as I don’t venture out to make new, different things like I used to. I think the thing is as I have so little time to create, I feel I don’t want to spend the time creating something totally new and then possibly failing. Before I had children I never worried about something that didn’t work out, but now I think ‘ahh, I wasted 1 hour and have nothing to show for it’. when actually the failures are the stepping stones I need to achieve something better! Clare, thank you so much for giving me some food for thought. I am so excited about you going to Japan for P&C’s wedding. Any room in your suitcase??*lol* love,Melissa

]]> By: lissilulu http://loobylu.com/archives/000999.htm/comment-page-1#comment-17001 lissilulu Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:59:58 +0000 archives/000999.htm#comment-17001 wow...sounds like a great book. I am a single mom of five (divorced almost two years ago) and I have so far continued to home school my kids while starting up college myself. One thing that happened after the divorce is I started designing little girls clothing again...I don't know if it was purely for that much needed boost of any income during the spurts of time to do and not to do it, or because it is something that belongs to *only me* in a house where I give so much. I truly believe that right now I may get to the point where I question some of my choices of giving so much but, when I am older with an empty house I won't question a bit of it and will be quite satisfied with what I gave and the children I grew in my *mothering years*. bookmarking you :o) Lori wow…sounds like a great book.

I am a single mom of five (divorced almost two years ago) and I have so far continued to home school my kids while starting up college myself.

One thing that happened after the divorce is I started designing little girls clothing again…I don’t know if it was purely for that much needed boost of any income during the spurts of time to do and not to do it, or because it is something that belongs to *only me* in a house where I give so much.

I truly believe that right now I may get to the point where I question some of my choices of giving so much but, when I am older with an empty house I won’t question a bit of it and will be quite satisfied with what I gave and the children I grew in my *mothering years*.

bookmarking you :o )
Lori

]]> By: Ruby http://loobylu.com/archives/000999.htm/comment-page-1#comment-17000 Ruby Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:19:00 +0000 archives/000999.htm#comment-17000 Hi, this looks really interesting, I might have to check it out, if I have the time that is!!! I love your blog and have been watching it for a while now, but have just relocated and sort of gone on blog-hiatus for a couple of months, so it's nice to come back and see that you're still up and running! thank you. love Ruby Hi, this looks really interesting, I might have to check it out, if I have the time that is!!!
I love your blog and have been watching it for a while now, but have just relocated and sort of gone on blog-hiatus for a couple of months, so it’s nice to come back and see that you’re still up and running! thank you.
love Ruby

]]> By: ash http://loobylu.com/archives/000999.htm/comment-page-1#comment-16999 ash Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:18:36 +0000 archives/000999.htm#comment-16999 I am so happy you posted this. I had no idea such a book existed, and I am going to read that thing, immediately. May I also suggest: Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, by Henry Miller, which was very soothing to an overworked artist/mommy's soul, as well! Happy Weekend to you! I am so happy you posted this. I had no idea such a book existed, and I am going to read that thing, immediately.

May I also suggest: Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, by Henry Miller, which was very soothing to an overworked artist/mommy’s soul, as well!

Happy Weekend to you!

]]> By: Danielle http://loobylu.com/archives/000999.htm/comment-page-1#comment-16998 Danielle Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:18:52 +0000 archives/000999.htm#comment-16998 I have been struggling with the best way to respond to this amazing topic, but as a non mum, it's the passion for creativity and the drive to fulfull this desire (and keep the work/life balance) that interests me about this book. I am curious to read it. I have been struggling with the best way to respond to this amazing topic, but as a non mum, it’s the passion for creativity and the drive to fulfull this desire (and keep the work/life balance) that interests me about this book. I am curious to read it.

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