My Ideal Life
As promised, I want to share with you things I’ve found to celebrate the the art of living through creativity. I’ve learned most of these things from others who generously shared their invaluable experience. They’ve helped me SO MUCH, I want to pay it forward.
Here’s a great one I use and am living the results…
It’s Not What You Think
If I had to pick one thing that I’ve found to awaken my creativity, keep my creativity alive and is sustainable, it’s a very simple practice. And it’s probably not what you’d think…
WRITE DAMMIT!
It’s Christmas day. I’m in my nearly empty library-in-the-making. The deep red walls are still splotchy like worn red leather. I’ll give…
You Are Creative
I have a friend who’s head of a wine department. She signed up for a class…
Define Success
I’ve always thought it would be so fun to make pencil drawings. I recently bought a large sketchbook and drawing pencils. It was hard to start playing around with it because my drawings felt embarrassingly awful…
Abundance vs. Scarcity
I dated a man who was a sculptor. At that time he was finishing one sculpture and had ideas brewing for his next. The message of the next piece was to be a provocative question surrounding guns. He would need parts and pieces of guns for his work. I enlisted myself as a fellow gun-parts-scavenger…
I Need Space
In order to best tap into my own creativity, it’s incredibly helpful to have space in several ways and for several reasons…
Plan to Fail
I plan to fail.
This isn’t a self-deprecating statement. It’s more like a reframe…
