Recovering A Sense of Possibility LESSON TWO: Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can. Julia Cameron First we have to believe that we are allowed to catch the bus. Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, except abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually. […]
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 […]
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 23 Can you make money from your art? Is your art for money or love? Don’t we all have to eat and pay our bills? Living the creative life is a nice idea and often an idealistic dream, so how many people actually make enough money from […]
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 […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 21 It’s Not Too Late Are you a late creative bloomer? Did you wait until later in life to take the brave step and begin to live a creative life? I quit teaching to take up writing full-time. I wish I’d done it earlier in life. I wish I’d realised that writing […]
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 […]
