ME/CFS Awareness Month: Lessons for everyone from an artist with ME
If you read my blog regularly, you’ll know that back in the late 1990s I was diagnosed with ME (or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). Or maybe you won’t. Until quite recently I was reticent about talking about being ill on my blog, and largely only mentioned it in the most general terms and when it got in the way of regular updates. My reasoning for this was two-fold.
Don’t wait for permission to create
This week I’ve been rereading Danny Gregory’s excellent book, The Creative License. Its message, that you don’t need to wait for someone to give you permission to be creative, is one that it strikes me could do with being repeated. A lot.
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I'm Michael Nobbs, an artist, blogger and tea drinker (not necessarily in that order).
I'd like to show you that it is possible to stay creative even when energy is in short supply, and how working on small creative acts on a regular basis can build over time into a substantial body of work (and even a creative career).
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