I held midterm conferences this week with my students, about 80% of whom seemed definitely burned out. A few asked me the same question, which I both advised beautifully (whoops, let me get that dust off my shoulder) and seem almost comically unable to rise above in my own life. And so I’m bringing this question to you.
Their questions were about art practice, but they could have been about any kind of practice; anything, really, that requires care and attention. Here’s a non-exhaustive list:
Home renovation
Activism or community building
Writing
Strength training (which I like to call “muscle-muscle”)
Sewing machine repair
Sculpture
Rock collecting
Cold water swimming
Piano playing: both composing of music and interpreting of Chopin
Also accordion, also really any instrument
Blogging about Weird Al, which, you’re right, I thought of because I wrote the word “accordion”
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A painting I did of Weird Al. To add texture to the list. Watercolor could also be on the list.
