Creative Sparks
Creative Sparks provides tools, guidance and soul inspiration about once a week to:
Ignite and sustain your creativity • Identify and realize your heart’s true dreams • Live a life of passion, purpose and deep play
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The Gift and Curse of Being Highly Sensitive
“You’re too sensitive!” I’ve heard these words most of my life, and if you are highly sensitive, you probably have too. Many artists are. What is it that people who say “you’re too sensitive!” expect you to do about it? Turn it down? If I had a dial to turn down my...
Coming to Fullness at the Solstice
On Tuesday night I held my annual Summer Solstice fire circle. It was a beautiful night, despite the intense heat wave we are having. There was a deep peace, beauty and presence of heart in our gathering. We told jokes, drummed and danced, honored the gifts of the...
Give Voice to Your Own Astonishment
Pearls from the Colrain Poetry Conference I am just back from the Colrain Poetry Conference, this one held in Truchas, New Mexico. The conference is unique among poetry workshops in that it is an intensive weekend devoted to honing a manuscript of poems as a whole,...
The Gift of Silence and Solitude
I recently gave myself a glorious, and much-needed, gift. I took a weekend away in a quiet place for a self-guided retreat. I left on Friday at noon, was home by 8:00 p.m. on Sunday night, and in that short span of time my inner world shifted radically. I had been...
Inspiration for your creative fire
Today I share with you a garland of inspiration to feed your creative fires. You’ll find here 7 of my favorite posts that I shared on my Brilliant Playground Facebook page this past month. May these help you bring more singing, dancing, writing, creating, dreaming,...
Oh, the pleasures of reading and writing
In today's issue of Creative Sparks I thought I'd share with you several of the books I've been reading lately, spanning the realms from shamanism to fiction to poetry (my personal favorite). May these inspire you to your own fertile explorations into the wide...
What’s Spirit got to do with it?
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you." —Kahlil Gibran What’s Spirit got to do with it? One of the things that...
My Story…
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination." – Poet - John Keats I’d like to tell you a story, a sacred story, of sorts. In some of my classes and workshops, I tell the story of how I came to do this teaching...
Welcome, Imbolc!
In this issue of Creative Sparks, I share with you about the ancient Celtic tradition of Imbolc. Imbolc is a time of celebrating creativity, poetry, new life, and the eternal flames within us and around us. I hope to help you kindle those flames in yourself as you...
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