{"id":2978,"date":"2012-10-07T07:55:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T11:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2012\/10\/thinking-v-feeling\/"},"modified":"2012-10-07T07:55:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T11:55:12","slug":"thinking-v-feeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2012\/10\/thinking-v-feeling\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking v. Feeling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Came across this great short <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Ze_Pz5fTdrY\" target=\"_self\">video clip<\/a> of quirky artist and personal hero of mine, Maira Kalman, speaking about creativity (thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swiss-miss.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Swiss-Miss<\/a>!)<\/p>\n<p>&quot;What is the difference between thinking and feeling?&quot; she asks.&#0160; &quot;Whenever I think too much I say: &#39; Stop thinking.. this will end badly.&#39; &quot;<\/p>\n<p>She goes on to describe how she goes for walks to allow her brain to empty.&#0160; &quot;Wonderful things happen when you&#39;re brain is empty.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>She concludes with a spot-on observation that certainly mirrors my experience as a photographer and, I&#39;m guessing, anyone in a creative field:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;A lot of my work is waiting for the unexpected and to be surprised.&quot;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b017c325fefbb970b-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"113\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b017c325fefbb970b\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b017c325fefbb970b-500wi.jpg\" title=\"113\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Came across this great short video clip of quirky artist and personal hero of mine, Maira Kalman, speaking about creativity (thanks Swiss-Miss!) &quot;What is the difference between thinking and feeling?&quot; she asks.&#0160; &quot;Whenever I think too much I say: &#39; Stop thinking.. this will end badly.&#39; &quot; She goes on to describe how she goes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-creativity","category-nature","category-new-paltz-ny","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}