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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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Your Life Is Your Art
Last week my Artist’s Way class had their graduation celebration. I want to share with you something that came out of that which feels vital for us all. The celebration, on Zoom, was beautiful, moving and joyful, with deep reflection and sharing of art work that the...
The Most Beautiful Thing You Can Make
“The world may end. You’re right. But that’s not a reason to be scared. None of us know what will happen. Don’t spend time worrying about it. Make the most beautiful thing you can. Try to do that every day. That’s it. You know? What are you working for, posterity? We...
How to Make Time for Your Art and Find Your Creative Flow
. . .even when you’re busy or it feels really hard Last month I offered my patrons on Patreon the challenge to spend ten minutes a day making art. I took on the challenge too. Just ten minutes, but every day. I gave them a blank calendar for the month to track the...
Self-Care and Soul-Care During COVID-19
In these extraordinary and challenging times, the arts offer much-needed solace, connection, upliftment and inspiration. Fortunately, many artists and arts organizations are making all sorts of offerings available for free online right now. So, just because you can’t...
Embracing Failure as a Necessary Step in Art
Dancing near the edge For over a month now I have been working on a poem called “Tango Near the Edge,” and in the end, it might not be any good. I am writing it in response to a very complex prompt I found in a book of difficult writing prompts called Challenges for...
Pam Houston on Writing and Creative Process
A couple of weeks ago I went to a talk and reading by much-loved author Pam Houston and then took her writing workshop the next day. I came away inspired, with her latest memoir, Deep Creek, under my arm, and new tools to use and teach, but I was also troubled....
How to Measure Success as an Artist
How you measure success as an artist affects your creativity, health, happiness and more. I look at how I measure success, how the culture measures success, external and internal measures of success and how you can increase your own success as an artist.
Why We Need to Make Art Now (More Than Ever)
When we make art, we aren’t destroying. We are uniting, rather than dividing. When we create, we find and build connections between things, instead of separation. We knit pieces of the world together. We hold up the beauty, magic and magnificence of the world, so that...
2019 My Year In Review
This is my 2019 Year in Review. I encourage you to do your own. This is a good time of year to pause and reflect. When we take time to harvest the outgoing year, we help pave the way for a heart-centered, soul-aligned year to come. Make note of the highlights of the...
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