100 Day Creative Challenge Day 47: Creative Community I belong to what I term My Creative Community. I’ve formed friendships with people of all different ages, from all around the world who have become my community. Creativity feeds creativity. Sort of like that idea of iron sharpening iron. We all need to belong, to feel […]
100 Day CreativeChallenge: Day 37 Be A Weirdo Masaru Ibuka, who founded Sony once said, “Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.” Being weird is just being open to different experiences and ideas. We can all develop an openness to new experiences and step out of our comfort […]
100 Day CreativeChallenge: Day 35 Finding Your Brave I never met Ruthee Elisabeth Carnegie, but her words have impacted me. Her life has spoken to me thorough the lives of several of my friends. She battled with cancer for the last couple of years yet she inspired her friends to live life with fragrance and […]
Live An Amplified Life To amplify means to: exaggerate deepen heighten intensify magnify strengthen boost develop raise stretch jazz up There are lots more synonyms I could trot out, but you get the picture. Most of the time, life is made up of ordinary moments, the everyday moments that don’t get broadcast to the […]
100 Day CreativeChallenge: Day 34 A Revolution in Your Heart I’ve had a pretty crappy sort of day. It’s a New Year and I’ve had a setback with my recovery. I spent the day in bed feeling very low, sore and very lazy. At church tonight the sermon was about making progress and making […]
100 Day Creative Challenge: Day 32 Appointments For Adventure New Year is traditionally a time when we reflect on the previous year and make resolutions or plans for the next. As a writer, I imagine the New Year as a blank page, one to be filled with potential stories, ideas and characters which will form […]
One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 30 Recovering a Sense of Possibility LESSON FOUR: An Artist Requires Creative Solitude If you’ve ever done a Myers Briggs personality test you may have been a screaming mess like I was. The introvert/extrovert divide is not that clear in any test I’ve done. I remember asking if I could begin the […]
Christmas is over for another year and as our our thoughts move to plans for 2016, I’m thinking over the idea of Recovering a Sense of Possibility. For the next week I’m working through Chapter Five of Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity. Too often we look at the past year […]
One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 25 A Literary Christmas Today I’m sharing some of my favourite Christmas quotes. May your day be filled with family, friendship, food and faith as you celebrate with loved ones. 1. And then the rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept […]
