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Training Like a Spiritual Warrior For Your Art

Training Like a Spiritual Warrior For Your Art

by Maxima Kahn | Aug 17, 2023 | Creative Sparks, Inspired Creativity

I’ve been thinking about how artists need to train like warriors. Or like athletes. Or like monks. I was inspired by one of Steven Pressfield’s excellent posts (https://stevenpressfield.com/2021/12/training-turning-pro/). If we want to become the best artists we...
Making Art Is Inconvenient

Making Art Is Inconvenient

by Maxima Kahn | Jul 20, 2023 | Creative Sparks, Inspired Creativity, Soulful Living

Making art is inconvenient. We have to carve out time for it. We have to carve out space for it. We have to spend our hard-earned money on it. We have to rearrange our schedules, ask for time off from work, and beg out of gatherings with friends and family at times....
The Power of Creative Community

The Power of Creative Community

by Maxima Kahn | Jun 27, 2023 | Creative Sparks, Inspired Creativity

When I was in my senior year of college, a group of ten improvising musicians miraculously came together. We called ourselves the Relentless Compassion Orchestra. Many nights a week, we would meet to improvise and create pieces together. In an old barn on the...
My Favorite Books of 2022

My Favorite Books of 2022

by Maxima Kahn | Jun 5, 2023 | Creative Sparks, Inspired Creativity, Soulful Living

This past year was a particularly difficult one to narrow down my favorite books of the year to just ten. There were so many good books! I read 49 books this past year, plus parts of quite a few others, plus six more I read aloud with my husband. I could easily have...
9 Excellent Reasons to Make Art

9 Excellent Reasons to Make Art

by Maxima Kahn | Mar 30, 2023 | Creative Sparks, Inspired Creativity

Making art is a profoundly good thing to do with your time. It makes our world a better place. Yet almost all artists struggle with doubt about whether what they are doing is worthwhile. Many of us have also been told that when we are making art, we’re doing...
On Generosity: Sacred Key to Abundance and Joy

On Generosity: Sacred Key to Abundance and Joy

by Maxima Kahn | Mar 2, 2023 | Creative Sparks, Inspired Creativity, Soulful Living

At the start of 2020, I chose generosity as my word of the year, not knowing consciously what we were in for globally that year. Or rather, the word chose me. I started this essay back then, exploring how generosity can enlarge me as an artist and human being, and I...
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