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Great Artists Steal or How to Learn from the Masters
T.S. Eliot famously wrote, “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.” What did Eliot mean by this seemingly outrageous assertion? He wasn’t talking about...
A Return to Heart
Fires, floods, earthquakes, violence, intolerance, divisiveness, greed. It's easy to see our world is in upheaval. These are intense, challenging times. We are being called to return to heart. As a human race, we have been living in severe imbalance for so long that...
On Devotion to Creativity: A Life, A Path
I Am Devoted to Beauty and Creation Some days all i can truly do is write. It’s all i can do truly, with a whole heart, with devotion. This is what’s given to me, and it’s a lot. What jewels have been laid in my hands—I am awestruck, fascinated, dutiful, grateful. How...
Creativity Is Your Birthright
Creativity is not something we have to stress and strain after, contort ourselves into shapes over, feel terrible about, measure and fail. Creativity is our birthright, our blood. It flows through us and all things, giving them life and growth, drawing forth unique...
The Power of Creative Routines, Part II
This is Part 2 in a series on The Power of Creative Routines. If you missed Part 1, click here. Supportive Structures Accessing the power of routines is about creating supportive structures in our lives that have us putting what we most cherish and desire first and...
Making the Most of This Tumultuous Time
On Monday, August 21 there will be a total solar eclipse and a new moon. There was a partial lunar eclipse on the full moon on August 7. The time between these eclipses is said by astrologers to be the biggest energetic portal of the year. A time for transformation,...
6 Essential Ingredients Webinar
The 6 Essential Ingredients You Need to Thrive in Your Creative Life A completely FREE, interactive 90-minute webinar with Maxima Kahn Tuesday, August 22 from 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. PST (To find out when that is in your time zone, click here.) You're invited. To register,...
The Power of Creative Routines Part 1
Today I share with you the first of a series of posts on The Power of Creative Routines to support you in your creativity and in actually living your dreams. This is something most, if not all, professional artists know. And it can be the dividing point between those...
7 Highly Effective Tools for Overwhelm
If you are a highly sensitive person, you will already be familiar with what overload feels like. You are flooded with too much sensation, emotion, thoughts, images. Your mind may be spinning, or you feel fuzzy, unable to focus.
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