Why I Picked It Up Long before I began thinking about transitions and differentiation in psychological terms, I was surrounded by tesserae, slate, stone, and glass. Mosaic has always been more than a medium for me; it has been a way of understanding time. This book appealed to that part of me, the part that sees mosaic not simply as technique, but as lineage. What Stayed With Me What I appreciate most about Goodwin’s work is the sense of continuity. The reminder that mosaic i

Why I Picked It Up I first read The Artist’s Way  years ago, at a time when creativity felt both essential and elusive. I was drawn to the structure, the promise that creative life wasn’t simply a personality trait, but something that could be cultivated. It felt practical. Grounded. Possible. And perhaps most importantly, it felt like permission. "It is my experience that this is the case. I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, in

The refusal to treat creativity as indulgent or secondary. The clear assertion that making something is not selfish. It is necessary.