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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Bridge

Dear ones, what is it we are after on this bridge, in the frozen solitudes? What simple act of kindness will bind us forever? What is it that might solve us, absolve us? What radiant glimmering now gone?   How shall we survive the tempest that swirls around our...

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Drawing on the Power of the Moon

Today is the new moon, a natural beginning of a new cycle, one we can feel in our blood and bones, one we can see in the night sky. Peoples of all times have related to the waxing and waning cycles of the moon to help guide the rhythms of our lives. We are no...

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A Love Practice

A Love Practice

Ask yourself: "What is the most loving thing I can do for myself today?" Now, get quiet. Wait past the first answer the mind wants to offer, which may be a reflex or something that's habitual for you. Listen. Tune in. Pay attention to your deep heart, your wise heart,...

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Your Wild Heart, Your Tame Heart

What should I do about the wild heart and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. —Jeannette Winterson, from the novel Lighthousekeeping   How are you tending your wild heart? How are you creating a true home...

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Permission to Refuse

You have a dream in your heart, or a goal you long to reach, a bad habit you want to break, a good habit you want to cultivate. You are trying to lose weight, to write a book, find a mate, build your dream house, become a great singer. But you’re banging your head...

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The Double-Edged Sword of Creativity

Sitting out here in the wind, the dancing trees, a peace washes over me and a sadness. I feel the fear of merging with that which annihilates me—the powerful force of creativity moving through me—and simultaneously the longing for it, because what is annihilated is...

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What I Know

This is what I know: That you were born with unique gifts that the world needs at this time, that you have a place and purpose here, that you were in fact called forth in this time and this place, in this body, with these gifts and challenges, because we need you. You...

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What Makes Your Heart Sing?

Summer draws to a close and Autumn nears. According to the astrologers, we are in a time right now that asks us to ask ourselves: "What makes your heart sing?" and to align our lives more completely with that, to make choices that validate our deepest dreams, desires,...

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