Projects and books

Happy new year of the dog!

I got two new books this weekend when P came home! Hurray, I’m such a lucky girl, not only because of the books, but because I have a man who loves me and comes home to me to hug me all weekend. Ahum, this post is about books and projects though.

The first book is Writing down the bones by Natalie Goldberg, first recommended to me by Marcia when we discussed The Artist’s Way over e-mail. I’m curious, but haven’t started reading it yet.

The other book is 52 projects by Jeffrey Yamaguchi, also on my wish list! (Non of the books with pictures was found, but I think I’ll treat my self to a Valentine gift and order one or two next month.) It is a lot about writing too, wish is great. When I started to read it I was really worried I wouldn’t like it, that it wouldn’t inspire me. Not that I need more inspiration, I have so many ideas and projects all ready that my head might blow up one of these days (at least it will if I ever try to do them all, but I won’t, I promise!). But since I got the book I wanted it to speak to me, specially after all the great critic this book has gotten from fellow bloggers… But after I browsed through the firt couple of pages (that I will read more thoroughly another time) I got to Project #1 and I was hooked, inspired, in love. I just have to do this, and #2 too, and… It seams to be a lot about giving and doing RAOK (random acts of kind) to the world, something I haven’t been so good at. I need to work on it.

Do you ever feel like you are the only person in the entire world (or at least among your family and friends) that are making personal cards and sending out for birthdays and Christmas? If feels a bit ungratifying to be the only one putting time and effort into gifts, when all you get is bought stuff and perhaps a thank you (if you are lucky)… I feel like that sometimes. But this book feels like a gift too, a gift to make me nicer and craftier! Wanting to start one thousand (or at least 52!) new projects this year – the year of the dog!

• Official homepage of Natalie Goldberg
• Official homepage of 52 Projects one of Jeffrey Yamaguchi’s many projects

Fun, fun, fun! I will post more about these projects as I read along, and perhaps even make a Project Category, to tell you how I progress? What do you think? Have you read ’em?

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