Comments on: In Our Little World

By: Lynette

Lynette — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 20:52:03 +0000

Brooke, thank you! I am watching your Creative Live workshop and looked at your website and blog. I am blown away! But most of all, thank you for the “self-portrait challenge”. I’ve always been too afraid to try one. But, after seeing you in action and hearing you speak about it, I am binding my fear and going for it. You’ve inspired me and I think I will enjoy working on it. I’ve always felt restricted in so many areas of my life… restricted to be the real me. So I will use that as a platform for my self-portrait and will send it to you when I’m finished. My talent is not on your level, but my heart will be there and hopefully it will show in the finished portrait. God bless!

By: Mary-Claire Fredette

Mary-Claire Fredette — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 00:46:38 +0000

It made me laugh that my roommate at AD thought that it was bizarre that I would bring a juicer to AD. (That is SO tame!) You see, my inner weirdness has been squelched for far too long. My husband and I have felt for a long time that we don’t really belong anywhere, stuck between who we feel like we “should” be for our family and who dances inside. I often daydream as well and am never surprised that I am not paying attention.

Although I often feel like your work is a little dark for me, I love the passion, the stories and the weirdness of being you. I follow your blog precisely because you are indeed the master of your own tales, and because you inspire me as well.

Thanks for being the huggy, passionate, sharing and giving person that you are. I promise you’ll get your own homemade juice next time I see you. And I’m working on the wall of water photo too. 🙂

By: Lisa Lizarraga

Lisa Lizarraga — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:23:49 +0000

yes i am so lost…but it was loosing myself that finally allowed me to find the real me. I no longer care what the world thinks. Happiness is now mine.

By: Joel

Joel — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 03:33:03 +0000

Brooke you spoke from your heart with passion & sincerity. I do believe you touched many people in that audience. You do inspire. There were many folks excited to have the opportunity to be there. I saw it in their eye & heard it in their voices when I would confirm that they were at the right room.

The free flow of the process was fun to watch. It was obvious you had a vision in mind, and allowed it to come to it’s own fruition as the sticks enclosed & the powder floated in the air.

Thanks for helping me to push the door of my creativity cabinet open a bit more- to better hear it’s voice.

By: jen sulak

jen sulak — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 05:44:19 +0000

I kinda think for me, in most large spaces and places…I actually start to retreat and hide a bit LOL 🙂 I will get overly-sensory-stimulated and find myself drowning in an ocean of voices and noise. However, I still get out – I still head outward outside of the zone…and keep pushing to where i’m supposed to be. Weird, awkward and all…experiencing life in all its glory…is pretty awesome. 🙂

By: Emily

Emily — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 03:59:18 +0000

You are such an inspiration. Thank you for sharing your passions. Your art. Your love for what you do. I identify with you SO MUCH and am so grateful for artists like you, who truly LOVE what you do. And convey it in such an HONEST way. Thank you for doing what you do and doing it the way you see it. You – and your work – are beautiful. Blessings to you!

By: Sherry G.

Sherry G. — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 00:08:30 +0000

Brooke, In your life you have been given a great gift — maybe from your parents, maybe from somewhere else — that allows you to totally accept yourself in all your brilliant and quirky uniqueness. I am in total awe of how you back yourself up and support yourself in situations where your values and being may be so foreign to others. But what I also really love is how you pass this attitude and approach on to to others and model it for us — so that we in turn, no matter what messages we have internalized, are encouraged to go forth, proud of our particular talents and way of being in the world. You. Brooke, are a gift to us all!

By: Rocio

Rocio — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 22:12:49 +0000

I usually find myself lost in my own little world. So much so that my mother is always telling me to wake up, to snap out of it and pay attention to my surroundings. When I started college I began a spiritual journey. I immersed myself in the “new age” world. My mind went to so many places. It went places that for some people, only hallucinogens could take them. I lived in that world for years until I got married. Then I sort of fell into the fine art photography world …when you gave your cL workshop… my life changed. Now, again, I’m in a world where my family and friends see me as a strange little bug! A lot of it they cannot understand.

I believe that these days more and more people are coming out and showing others their strangeness. People want to be themselves and show who they are!

By: David de Lange

David de Lange — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 19:03:04 +0000

I love it brooke, thank you for inspiring me.

By: brookeshaden

brookeshaden — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 16:12:41 +0000

In reply to Jishnu. Aww Jishnu thank you so much, that really means a lot to me. I am so grateful for your kindness.