An Absorbing Errand: The Psychology of Mastery in Creative Work

Surely, the garden, quite apart from its tangible satisfactions, fertilizes the imagination with ample metaphors for the tilling of our interior landscape — metaphors nowhere more precise and poetic than in the opening pages of psychotherapist and writer Janna Malamud Smith’s altogether magnificent exploration of the creative life, "An Absorbing Errand: How Artists and Craftsmen Make Their Way to Mastery."

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