PS - I got most of these books through my library, but if you decide to buy any of them, I of course encourage purchasing through your amazing local bookstore!
Tom Lake is a DREAM. And Betty Gilman's book is a firestarter, a riot. Absolute delights, both of them. As a not-actor, my question is: What are tangible ways that you protect your creative energy?
I'm rereading Little Women for the millionth time. It's a homecoming every time.
I loooooove it. Read it to the kids last summer.
PS - I got most of these books through my library, but if you decide to buy any of them, I of course encourage purchasing through your amazing local bookstore!
Too many to mention! Here are some recent go-to's that I tell students about:
The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin (yes, that Rick Rubin)
What It Is by Lynda Barry
4,000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
Older go-to's:
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shenryu Suzuki
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
Sacred Hoops by Phil Jackson (yes, that Phil Jackson)
Tom Lake is a DREAM. And Betty Gilman's book is a firestarter, a riot. Absolute delights, both of them. As a not-actor, my question is: What are tangible ways that you protect your creative energy?