100 Day Creative Challenge Day 47: Creative Community I belong to what I term My Creative Community. I’ve formed friendships with people of all different ages, from all around the world who have become my community. Creativity feeds creativity. Sort of like that idea of iron sharpening iron. We all need to belong, to feel […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 46 God Jar Today I’m beginning my God Jar. It will sit on my desk as a reminder to put notes to myself in it that will represent my gratitude, prayers, dreams, problems and hopes for this year. I’ll fill it with post-it notes that I’ll read at the end […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 45 Write What You Feel When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, ‘How do you feel?’ and you say, ‘Oh, I feel okay.’ Then you write about it, and you […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 44: Leap of Faith Whether you have a particular faith or not, you will take leaps of faith on a daily basis. Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see. Hebrews 11:1 Creating anything is an adventure […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 43 : dark night of the creative soul Are you a writer, painter, dancer, musician, singer, knitter, ceramicist or creative of any sort? Then I’m sure you’ve had days where you want to give up and walk away from whatever it is you’ve been trying to develop forever. I’ve had […]
One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 31 Recovering a Sense of Possibility LESSON FIVE: It’s Time to Dream It’s New Year’s Eve again. It only seems like yesterday I was sitting here at my desk dreaming about 2015 and its possibilities and now we’re in the final hours. I’ve never been one for New Year’s Resolutions […]
One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 30 Recovering a Sense of Possibility LESSON FOUR: An Artist Requires Creative Solitude If you’ve ever done a Myers Briggs personality test you may have been a screaming mess like I was. The introvert/extrovert divide is not that clear in any test I’ve done. I remember asking if I could begin the […]
One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 28 Recovering a Sense of Possibility LESSON FOUR: REPLACE ‘NO WAY!’ WITH ‘MAYBE.’ Julia Cameron calls finding our creative voice and following its guidance, ‘Finding the River’ in her book The Artist’s Way. When we begin to recover our sense of possibility we find ourselves saying, “You could still […]
Recovering A Sense of Possibility at this time of year is important. We usually find ourselves getting on the New Year Resolution bandwagon without really believing that a new year will see any change. We may have hope, even faith, but believing with a profound sense of possibility may fade as January turns into February and […]
