“Even when the two entangled particlesโor peopleโare separated by a great distance (and I mean emotional or physical distance…or like being at opposite ends of the universe), their movements or actions affect each other.” ~ Sally Ember on quantum entanglement I am writing to you from the edge of the Caribbean Sea and Yucatan jungle…
Creativity
Is Your Creative Goal Zapping Your Joy?
“Some people believe holding on and hanging in are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.” ~ Alyson Noel As I wrote about last week, sometimes we need to release a project or say No to something we…
Creativity Takes Courage
Creativity takes courage and it needs oxygen. “Freedom comes when you learn to let go, creation comes when you learn to say no.” ~ Madonna Ciccone I was halfway across the moonlit pool on a predawn morning in July of 2015 when the knowing landed fully intact, with a nuclear aftershock: In order for me…
Reclaiming Your Power
“The process of making art is the process of becoming a person with agency, with independent thought, a producer of meaning rather than a consumer of meanings that may be at odds with your soul, your destiny, your humanity….” ~ Rebecca Solnit The process of making art is a process of reclaiming your power. Every…
The Line Itself Is Giving You an Idea
The line itself is giving you an idea. And I think that’s the part that people don’t remember or suspect about drawing. That drawing can go not just from your head to the page, but definitely from the page and up your hand and into your head.” ~ Lynda Barry Emily Dickinson was very particular…
What Do You Know in Your Bones?
What knowing exists in your bones? Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.” ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne The open classroom of the Asheville Transcendental Meditation building was set up with a few…