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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How to Stick to Your Goals and Have Fun in the Process
Would you love to write or paint or play guitar every day? Would you like to kindle a meditation practice? Or a gratitude practice? Or a new eating habit? Do you keep procrastinating on a project you want to complete? Writing that book, cleaning out your closet,...
Inspire Your Muse With Creative Foreplay
The process of creating is as much about the time spent not creating—and how you use that time in service to creativity—as it is about the time spent actively engaging with making art. I am a huge walker and daydreamer. I might say that I’m a professional daydreamer....
The Joy of Completion: What Are You Waiting For?
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.― Henry David Thoreau Every Monday I draw a card...
Letting in the Wondrous: How to Cultivate the Optimum State for Creativity
For me, the essential “trick” to creating my best work is to cultivate that inner state in which I release conscious control and open to influence. I enter the wildness and wilderness, that state in which I can let the wind of inspiration blow through me, allow the strange to happen, the wondrous to seep through the cracks. It’s all about availability and surprise.
A Little Beauty Every Day
“Filling a space in a beautiful way – that is what art means to me.” –Georgia O’Keefe I find myself thinking a lot about this idea of making a little beauty everyday, to which I was introduced by Laurie Anderson via Austin Kleon’s brilliant, down-to-earth book on...
Creation and Revision: Letting Your Art Find Its Radiant Form
The process of revision or honing, polishing and shaping a work of art is one that often stumps creative people. Where to begin? How to go about making the work stronger, better, truer to itself? Will I ruin it in the process? What to cut, keep, add, change? Some time...
7 Steps to Inspire Your Creativity Again and Again
How do you foster inspired creativity? And how do you know when you’ve had a good creative day? Is it when you have finished a wonderful painting, written 1000 words, or worked out the ending to your dance piece? Or is it when you spent four hours in your studio,...
Are You Trying to Do Too Much?
Find what’s yours and leave the rest This past year, our world has turned more virtual than ever. Every event, concert, class and workshop is happening online now, thanks to the pandemic. Suddenly, we are not limited to what’s happening in our own town or even our...
2020 My Year In Review— Amazing, Terrible, Full
At the end of every year I pause to harvest the blessings, learnings, challenges and losses of the outgoing year. I give myself space to honor and celebrate my life, to learn from the past, clean my slate, replenish, and prepare to set a new vision for the year to...
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