“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….
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Being in a Funk as Creative Fodder
“In the depths of winter I learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” ~ Albert Camus We are all in a time of sweeping, structural transformation in our lives. While it is true that everything is always changing, this is particularly true for us right now. And if you follow astrology, you know…
Feeling Trapped? Create Your Way to Freedom
What do we do when feeling trapped? “…but i had something big inside me that i wanted and had to say and if i hadn’t written that book, i don’t think i would feel free….” ~ Amanda Palmer Nearly six years ago, Amanda Palmer sat in a bar in Melbourne and wrote the first words…
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…
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…
Are We Having Fun?
“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” ~ Dale Carnegie Steve Jobs famously said, “I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer…
