“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we…
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Looking Back to Move Forward
Sometimes it takes looking back to move forward. What has happened to it all?Crazy, some’d sayWhere is the life that I recognize?Gone away But I won’t cry for yesterdayThere’s an ordinary worldSomehow I have to findAnd as I try to make my wayTo the ordinary worldI will learn to survive” ~ Excerpt from “Ordinary World”…
Letting Go of Control to Become More Creative
“How wild it was, to let it be.”― Cheryl Strayed,Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail The invasion of the body snatchers began during my seventh month of pregnancy. I stood behind my husband as he sat in a chair in the living room. To his right was a small table upon…
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The Impact of Creative Environments
Creative environments can inspire your best work. “The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.”“California is always in my mind.”~ David Hockney I never used to put much stock in Virginia Woolf’s concept that “a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” The…
Creative Anxiety: The Art (& Hell) of Change
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” ~ Rumi I sat on the sofa, with my MacBook Air propped on my lap and a collapsed tower of notebooks, scraps of paper, research articles, and sticky notes to my right. I kept jumping…
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Making Progress in Creativity
“Scratching is real and tangible. It bloodies your fingernails. The key is not to block yourself; you have to leave yourself open to everything.” ~ Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It For Life I printed out the pages of my book manuscript recently—something I had not done since I began writing….
