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Sonata
Feast your eyes on the gold and silver of the morning light in these trees, your ears on the rhythmic drumming of the woodpecker, the funny laughter of some little bird snickering like a mischievous boy. This is the balm of morning, its healing salve,...
Happy Inter-Dependence Day!
I am celebrating our beautiful interwoven-ness today. Every day in every thing we do, we are dependent upon thousands of beings, seen and unseen, past and present. We are held and supported by thousands of hands. How beautiful it is to be a part of the web of all...
The Seasons of a Creative Life ~ Part 3: Autumn
This is part 3 in a 4-part series on The Seasons of a Creative Life. You can read part 1 here and part 2 here. Just as the season of summer does not last all year, neither does the summer of our creative life. Autumn comes and, with it, a period of harvesting and then...
The 6 Essential Ingredients of a Brilliant Life
You know that moment when you are consumed in the act of creation, doing something that you love? Inspired, you forget time and place, you forget self-consciousness. You feel powerful, lit up. It's one of the best feelings in the world. The next day or a week later,...
The Seasons of a Creative Life ~ Part 2: Summer
This is part 2 of a 4-part series of the Seasons of a Creative Life. If you missed part 1, read it here. Following the period of initial inspiration, the Springtime of your creative cycles, comes Summer. Summer is a time of tending our new shoots and watching them...
A way to have what you need
I am writing to you to respond to a core challenge I hear from so many of you. I hear from many of you who: have done my programs over the years, and also those who keep longing to sign up but never quite get around to it. First of all, I want you to know: I love you...
The Seasons of a Creative Life ~ Part 1
Below I share with you the beginning of a series of posts about the seasons of our creative lives and how we can recognize and make the most of each of these seasons. First a little acknowledgment of the turning of the seasons. Turning to Summer This Sunday, June 21,...
The Healing Presence – Rumi, May 29
“Pure quiet,” Rumi writes. My own soul is restless today, angry and torn. All of this is “you,” says Rumi, meaning me, us, soul, the One. Even this terrible tumbling. He writes of a great healing presence. Call it Shams of Tabriz (his teacher and friend), call it God,...
The Tyranny of Originality
Some students recently wrote to me about their concern with being original in their art, their need to be original. They said that if they have a great idea that they love and then someone else mentions a similar idea, it kills the idea for them. They can no longer...
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