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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Finding Your North Star to Guide Your Year
Have you named dreams, intentions or desires for the year ahead? Have you sat down to connect with soul-inspired vision? Or does that all feel hopeless in the light of the upheaval of our times? How can we possibly plan? Why bother? When you take the time to connect...
How to Harvest Your Year
We have come to the end of this crazy year 2020. At last. It's time to take stock, to gather the harvest of the year. It's time to acknowledge, celebrate, mourn, forgive, release. The hard and awful, the joyful and blessed, the crazy, stressful, beautiful, boring, all...
Growing Through Your Art and the Art of Others
Making art is an evolutionary process. As we create, we grow as artists and as people. We continually evolve, learning new skills, testing new ideas, adventuring into new territory. And we are tried by our materials, by our limits, by our dreams for what we wish to...
Awaken Fully in this Lifetime
Something shifted for me recently around the concept of awakening. I don’t mean getting up in the morning, but awakened consciousness. I used to think awakening was unattainable for me. Or else, it was such a distant possibility, something a few other lucky...
Creating the World We Wish to Inhabit
I wrote this post during my free Write Together! event in June. It's a taste of what can happen when we co-create together and an invitation to keep creating the world we wish to inhabit. Right now I am sitting in a Zoom room with twenty-one other souls, whispering to...
Structure vs. Spontaneity
What constitutes a good day? One in which everything on the to do list is checked off as planned? Or one in which I went with the flow and did whatever I most desire? Which one leads to a day in which I fully lived, tasted, loved? The answer might seem obvious, but...
Turn Your Self-Doubt Into Generative Questions
I have wrestled with self-doubt most of my life. I don't remember a time when it wasn't there. Of course, there are plenty of moments when it's not there. But so often, there is that nagging feeling that I am not enough. Self-doubt is a painful companion. It slows us...
The World Is In Flames—What Do We Do?
These times ask much of us. We have brought them on ourselves. What questions can we ask to help us awaken and live more boldly from our hearts?
What Matters Most: Exploring Responsibility in Art
I have been playing this month with the idea of responsibility in my creative work. To what and whom am I responsible in my art? Here, I share some thoughts, findings and inspiration for your own creative, soulful life.
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