by Maxima Kahn | Mar 13, 2018 | Creative Sparks
A simple but powerful exercise to help you hear your heart’s guidance. Your heart is here to guide you to your best life. Not the easiest, but the best. The fullest expression of you. The richest, most beautiful, rewarding life. Your heart has answers your mind...
by Maxima Kahn | Feb 21, 2018 | Creative Sparks
This past week we had a new moon (and partial solar eclipse) that ushered in the Chinese new year. We have departed the year of the fire rooster (or phoenix) and entered the year of the earth dog. What does this mean for us? Justice, Truth and Integrity Astrologer...
by Maxima Kahn | Feb 15, 2018 | Creative Sparks
If you tend to start big dreams, ambitious goals or new projects and resolutions and then peter out, here’s something to try that can be a whole lot more fun and fulfilling. I’m a big dreamer. I love working and playing towards grand visions and big dreams for my...
by Maxima Kahn | Feb 8, 2018 | Creative Sparks
“We need the voices of all the poets,” Robert Duncan wrote. This has long been a credo of mine. Yet, I have to remind myself of it. Especially when I’m feeling “not good enough” as a poet. At times like those, I can start to feel “What’s the use? Who needs my poems...
by Maxima Kahn | Jan 25, 2018 | Creative Sparks
I “finished” a collection of my poems last summer after eight years of working on it, off and on, most recently with the help of professional editors. At that point I committed to sending it to four publication contests or open reading periods a month until I find a...