My Word

My word for the year 2008 is Process.

My inspiration to choose a word comes from Ali Edwards . She explains in her blog entry of January 4, 2007 about choosing a single word to focus on for the year. This really resonated with me and I decided to give it a go.

I was inspired to choose "Process" after reading the following in Grace Notes by Alexandra Stoddard, 1993, pages 5-6:

"The process is the reality." Dr Samuel Johnson and "...the intensity of this mysterious creative process - I look forward to the challenges, the stimulation, and the illumination."

I love that Process is a noun, verb, and adjective. It has a definition for every part of the creative journey.

Have you chosen a word?

Still Clean

It's now January 16, 2008 and the dining room table is still clean! We did have a few days of the table being buried while it was Pine Wood Derby Week at our house. Both my son and daughter constructed cars and the table had become the body/paint/detailing shop. That was last week, and it is clean again. I even did class samples. Now if only the study was tidy... How did that happen? (Insert dopey face here) The boy's car is the green Explorer and the girl made an icicle. The art teachers from the elementary and middle schools judge the design and this year the girl won third place for design. You can almost see the winner on the far left - it was a pink pearl eraser.