Without darkness, nothing is born
Help us to be always hopeful gardeners of the spirit Who know that without darkness Nothing comes to birth As without light nothing flowers. -May Sarton
creativity
Robert Henri’s “Art Spirit” Part Two
There are so many bits of wisdom in Robert Henri’s The Art Spirit that it’s hard to know what to share. (I have “wow” and “cool” and “neat” written in red letters in the margins of just about every page…) But perhaps this is the most important thing–Robert Henri talks about creating art as the…
Caterpillars, butterflies, and unexpected possibility
Our linear, Western minds always think we have it all figured out. The truth is (since creative process is the central theme of life), we don’t. Somehow, it’d be nice to find a way to shift away from the mind’s desire to stay on some sort of safe, linear track…..and embrace (and enjoy!) the creative…
An image big enough to inspire you
There was a child went forth every day. And the first object he looks upon, that object he became. –Walt Whitman The late poet Stanley Kunitz believed that writers often have a “key image” that keeps working them over and over again in their writing. In fact, writers may spend an entire lifetime working one…
On self-doubt.
I’ve never been a confident person and sometimes I wonder about that. Every creative thing that I have done has taken inner courage and energy to break through my natural state, which is to dismiss and deny that there is anything of value here. I often find myself viewing people who are confident as being…
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