As I fumble around trying to find my stride mid-life, I am beginning to remember with awe and respect that leisurely automatic setting my life once had. How I used to take time like it was abundant, and how that time gave way to imagination and curiosity and restoration of the soul.
Someone close to me is going through a break-up right now. As we were visiting the other day, I offered that while this was a time of breaking apart, it …
Creativity is like an explored room inside of us. This room comes standard within all of us. We are usually accepted for, if not encouraged to, explore our creative rooms when we are children. But then we stop visiting it and remove ourselves from the creative space. But we can reclaim these rooms within us.
Creativity can be felt in the body. Not sure where? Think back to a time when your creative energy or ideas were belittled. What did that feel like? What did that experience reveal about how you value creativity?
I was recently asked how I set intentions. See, I don’t do resolutions.
The way I feel and see, resolutions are hard-edged, judgmental – likely to cause cuts and bruises.
I don’t need more of those, so I have another approach.
Intentions have an expansiveness to them, a soulfulness. I like them better, and I get to because there’s no right way to be a human.
Creative fatigue is part of the creative process. This is how I approach that uncomfortable moment now, after so many painful lessons in ignoring them instead.
I spent many years getting ready to be creative. For decades of my life, I let my creative soul play quietly in the corner. I knew she was there, and …
In the past week, I forged back out into the world. I saw people in person. I attended small gatherings. I left the cocoon of my home for extended periods. …
