“You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings…creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into…
I adore Top Chef. I have no idea what fois gras is or why anyone would want to eat a meal of molecular gastronomy, but regardless, I think the show offers some very helpful tips for any creative genre. (Beside, where else can one hear such phrases as “exhibit balance” and “show restraint”?) Here are…
The thing about art is that it brings us into the exact present moment of our life…and captures that moment. Attached is a little watercolor I did recently.
A few years ago my intuition nudged me to give a class the assignment of writing a song. Only three students had musical ability (I came up with an alternate assignment for the others), and of those three students, only one young woman—Carmel Bracken, a workshop leader and educator from Ireland—was inspired to give it…
I discovered these “principles of creativity” on a handout I made for a workshop I led ten years ago (yikes.) In any case, I believe they still hold up: Creativity comes from the heart. Our hearts are what inspire our creativity. Listening to the heart’s wisdom, we have the courage to do something different, try…
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