{"id":517,"date":"2010-06-11T18:21:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T18:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/creativityandwellness.wordpress.com\/?p=517"},"modified":"2010-06-11T18:21:44","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T18:21:44","slug":"building-a-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adairheitmann.com\/cmswp\/?p=517","title":{"rendered":"Building a Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Twyla\u00a0Tharps&#8217; book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twylatharp.org\/store.shtml#\">The Creative Habit<\/a><\/em>, she talks about the importance of stopping before you\u00a0become exhausted. As creative individuals\u00a0we can get caught up in the verve of our endeavors, and can\u00a0tire ourselves. Tharp\u00a0shows the value of stopping before that point. She says that while she works herself, and her dancers hard, she always ends a rehearsal before\u00a0everyone\u00a0is fatigued. That way a bridge is built to the next day.<\/p>\n<p>I know a minister who takes July and August away from emails. He responds\u00a0to emergency\u00a0calls, but in the summer, he\u00a0takes everything down a notch in order to have time for reflection and rejuvenation. I feel the same way about this blog. I am going to take a break from writing it this summer. What&#8217;s funny is that I am not exhausted or burned out. In fact I have a pile of 26 purple, blue and white handwritten notes in various sizes and shapes on my desk, ready and\u00a0filled with ideas for this blog. I&#8217;m glad to end the season on a happy, fertile\u00a0note and\u00a0to build a bridge to September.<\/p>\n<p>During the summer months\u00a0I will still be working and\u00a0writing. If you miss me you can follow me on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/AdairHeitmann\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0where I write about creativity, wellness, art, books, writing and reading. Or just tune in when I return in September. Until then, I hope you enjoy your own summer.<\/p>\n<p><em>Creativity and wellness message for today: Take a breather before you need to.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Twyla\u00a0Tharps&#8217; book The Creative Habit, she talks about the importance of stopping before you\u00a0become exhausted. As creative individuals\u00a0we can get caught up in the verve of our endeavors, and can\u00a0tire ourselves. Tharp\u00a0shows the value of stopping before that point. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/adairheitmann.com\/cmswp\/?p=517\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17,11],"tags":[179,181],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-creativity","tag-twitter","tag-twyla-tharp-the-creative-habit"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adairheitmann.com\/cmswp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adairheitmann.com\/cmswp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adairheitmann.com\/cmswp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adairheitmann.com\/cmswp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adairheitmann.com\/cmswp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adairheitmann.com\/cmswp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adairheitmann.com\/cmswp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adairheitmann.com\/cmswp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adairheitmann.com\/cmswp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}