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 […]
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 24 A Writer’s Christmas Eve Out of all the Christmas traditions we could possibly have, my writer’s heart loves this one. Tracy writes a letter to her son every Christmas Eve, places it in a hand-decorated box and hangs it on the tree. Love it! I’m the sort […]
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 22 Giving Back to God The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron is one of my favourite books because it inspires me to live a creative life. Cameron writes about the spirituality of creativity as well as the practice. To her they go hand in hand. The Creator […]
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 20 Finding Time At this time of year it’s hard enough to clean the house and shop for Christmas without finding time for creative work. Fortunately a lot of us enjoy the creativity of Christmas preparation. Whether it’s baking, wrapping or choosing presents or finding creative ways to […]
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 19 The creative life means we are in it for the process, not just the final product. Too many people are looking to just create that one piece that will bring them fame or fortune, but for most of us, break-even or gratis is what we end up […]
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 18 I’ve had two surgeries in the last month. The scars from the first one are beginning to thicken and into scar tissue. The latest ones are quite raw,but they’ll heal. Our creative injuries need healing too. The scar tissue they produce can restrict us and hold us […]
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 17 Oh the cringe factor of reading my first book! It’s not TERRIBLE, it’s just that I see the errors, the poor writing, the ways in which I have changed as a person since I write those words ten years ago. It’s like that 80’s hairstyle that my […]
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day16 I am an obedient sort of person. A rule-keeper rather than a rule-breaker. I always wait for the green light to cross. I don’t enter when it says ‘Don’t Enter.’ I want to do the ‘right’ thing. When it comes to writing the temptation to always seek permission […]
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 14 Today I’m having surgery and I’m surrendering to the fact that I will have at least a month or six-weeks where I can’t control my life in the same way I usually do. Knowing I was facing surgery actually prompted me to begin this 100 Day Challenge. […]
