It's Monday night and I just finished my homework for the rest of the week. Well sorta… I feel like in the art world your work is never really done. At least I feel like mine is never really done. I just need to take a second look at my pieces to make sure that they are what I want to hand in.

When I was in my undergrad my professors had to pull me away from my paintings. They would say Laney, this is finished, I am taking this away from you before you overwork it and ruin it. They were right. I am now coming to the practice of stopping when I have even an inkling that my work is done because maybe that is what it is telling me. I just have to listen.

Speaking of listening I have been listening to Ted Talks as I've been doing my work. I feel much more productive doing that instead of just listening to music. Although I can't always listen to Ted Talks sometimes I just start to zone them out and I am not absorbing the information that I should be. The people that give these talks are so interesting and they live such interesting lives. It actually reminds me of the book that I just read, "The Journey is the Destination." Kathy or Amy Eldon should give a Ted Talk about Dan Eldon's life. Dan's story was truly interesting and inspiring. In fact I would love to hear Amy's point of view on all of the adventures because she went on some of them with Dan. Unlike Kathy who used his work to create a beautiful book maybe Amy has some of her own work.

I bought the book "The Journey is the Destination" because my final project for one of my classes is based off of the beautiful work of Dan Eldon's journals. The project is that we have to create our own journal as well as a final book just like Kathy Eldon did with Dan's journals. We first have to decide what we want the theme of our journal to be.

I kept writing down ideas whenever they would pop in my head of what I would want to design my journal about. I wasn't really settling on one because it wasn't just fitting, you know. But I finally settled on a topic which is the "Global Soul." Similar to the story written by Pico Iyer, who also performed a Ted Talk. The interesting part of the concept of having a global soul is when you do not feel like you have a home. You feel home comes from the people who you love or the things that you love, but a physical home doesn't exist for you. You do not necessarily feel like you belong and can return to one location or group that exist in a location. I definitely feel that I am a global soul and I never had a name for it until last summer when I learned about Pico Iyer.

In conclusion, I am excited to be inspired by two incredible men. One for his work and the other for his ideas. I want to be the one that intertwinds these ideas together.