by Maxima Kahn | Jul 31, 2019 | Creative Sparks, Inspired Creativity
To Authorize or To Abandon: How Do You Know When a Work of Art Is Done? How do you know when your poem or novel, your painting, symphony or dance piece is finished and ready to be shared with others? How do you know when it is time to stop revising, tinkering,... 
by Maxima Kahn | May 29, 2019 | Creative Sparks, Inspired Creativity, Soulful Living
One of the tenderest and most beautiful moments in my mother’s final days was the night before she died. My brother Josh sat singing to her for hours as she lay breathing raggedly, eyes closed, sunk deep into herself. And one by one all of my siblings and me, our... 
by Maxima Kahn | Apr 23, 2019 | Creative Sparks, Inspired Creativity, Soulful Living
I come to poetry… Asking to be relieved of the pain inside, the unspoken. Asking to be met in the hollows of my heart, in my seeing and feeling of the world. Asking for beauty and imagination, for care and caring, for brute truth and grace. Asking to be let in from... 
by Maxima Kahn | Mar 26, 2019 | Creative Sparks, Inspired Creativity, Soulful Living
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” —Oscar Wilde I try to please others, to be liked. And I wind up resentful, stifled, frustrated. I try to do what I think others want and find myself annoyed or bored or the whole thing going awry. As human beings, we have... 
by Maxima Kahn | Mar 15, 2019 | Creative Sparks, Dream Creation, Inspired Creativity
Starving Is Not Good for Artists (or Other Living Things) In my Artist’s Way class this week we are looking at how our relationship to money and abundance impacts our creativity. We are looking at what we value and at the value of art. So today I want to write... 
by Maxima Kahn | Jan 22, 2019 | Creative Sparks, Inspired Creativity
“Understand that you can have in your writing no qualities which you do not honestly entertain in yourself.” —Walt Whitman You Can’t Hide in Your Art An artist must take risks. An artist must be willing to be vulnerable in her art. But, being vulnerable does not come...