Approaching With a Touch of Curiosity and Lightness
Some years ago, I bumped into artist Alice Sheridan online, felt pulled to her art and self-disclosure. A recent newsletter of hers sparked a particularly focused little internal flash of direct connection. She spoke of creating her first website back in the day, of how terrified she was, and of establishing two guideposts for herself:
With any new task, try to find the fun in it.
Look for support.
Yup.
And yup.
I’m still in the protracted process of working out many unexpected kinks cropping up as I establish my blog at WordPress as well as having to learn multiple unfamiliar particulars in order to draft a post.
New task after new task.
The fun of it: learning the little snippets here and the tiny tidbits there that allow me to overcome one obstacle after another and move forward.
Tapping into support: I would not be here at all without the help of a dear friend who is far savvier than I with all things website. So grateful for her expertise, generosity, and encouragement. I’ve also reached out to WordPress support and, although those folks seem to move at 33 1/3 rpm rather than the 78 rpm I might prefer, they’ve stuck by my side.
When I haven’t been busy with website conundrums, I’ve fiddled around intermittently with a sketchbook exploration I started three weeks ago and whose early iterations I posted at my Blogger site. Posted below as a bridge between Blogger and WordPress: some of my fiddling.
7 x 7″; acrylic, ink, and oil pastel on sketchbook paper
neurographic abstract
2023
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16 responses to “Approaching With a Touch of Curiosity and Lightness”
I, too, am really glad my blog is up and running again, and I’m pleased to have it looking good. Thanks for your feedback on the font and thank you for commenting—at this early stage with a new blog site and with several problems still not resolved, I don’t yet feel fully confident that my posts are even reaching their audience!
Love your iterations! the additions of the scripts and collage pieces. Thanks for the link to Alice’s site, I see there is a way to see images small and open them in a viewer window like what we had on Blogger https://alicesheridan.com/blog/
What I found on WordPress is that they have apps for features that you have to buy. Ask Alice. She has a page that shows all her recent posts. Clicking on one goes to that particular post. Yes, I agree…. little steps pave the way for bigger steps.Greetings, Carol! Thank you for your comments. I had fun playing with varied iterations of this piece and, then, in the end I stayed with the version that I entitled with Fred Roger’s song words, “I Like You Just the Way You Are.” : )
I appreciate your calling attention to the way images at Alice Sheridan’s blog are posted in a smaller size and can be opened to view in a larger format. I don’t know what platform she uses to host her website. The default image size at WordPress, in my very limited experience thus far, seems to be large. I know the size can be selected from about 7 sizes but I haven’t yet personally investigated that option in the theme and WordPress plan I’ve chosen.
I keep taking little steps as I’m able, and I’m mostly having fun with the learning curve (when I’m not having fun, I say, Oh well!, close my computer, and do something else!).
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I will have to wait till Jen makes a new post. I think that since I already commented it will open the windows. I am on my tablet, the problem only shows on computer. Will check tomorrow on computer. When I open to comment I briefly see comment windows, I tried to comment on a comment,which was yours, and windows opened. Then the regular windows opened as well. Each post on computer same story. No problem on mobiles. Will show you on screenshots.
Always a steep learning curve going on here, ya know?! Thanks for your affirmation and support, Sheila.
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