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One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 28

Recovering A Sense of Possibility at this time of year is important. We usually find ourselves getting on the New Year Resolution bandwagon without really believing that a new year will see any change. We may have hope, even faith, but believing with a profound sense of possibility may fade as January turns into February and […]

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One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 27

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. […]

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One Hundred Day Challenge: Day 26

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 […]

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One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 25

 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 […]

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One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 24

 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 […]

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The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 23

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 […]

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The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 22

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 […]

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100 Day Creative Challenge Day 21

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 […]

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The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 20

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 […]

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