Wednesday's Word for the end of term: Date

Take yourself on an Artist Date.

In a weird position and surrounded by stuff I’ve made at the creative retreat I helped my dear friend Esther Thorpe to host. Photo by the lovely Holly Booth

Dear friends,

In Julia Cameron’s The Artists’s Way, which I haven’t read but do own, she artists take themselves on ‘dates.’

The Artist Date is the tool of attention. It has two differing emphases: “artist” and “date.” Put simply, an Artist Date is a once-weekly solo expedition to do something that enchants or interests you.

• Julia Cameron (read more)