Do you ever feel like your creativity died when your adult responsibilities took over? This is a topic that comes up occasionally among my friends who are raising young children. It sometimes feels like there’s just no time, or energy, to explore creative habits, old or new. While it’s true that seasons ebb and flow…
Creativity
The good news about birds: a song
After I shared my last post about the chorus of birds I was tuning into, and how the habit tends to realign my perspective to reality … I thought it would be fun to record a song for you. I wrote this song 17 years ago, in college, and played it at many-an-open mic night/Starbucks…
Leisure: the foundation of the creative life
There is a crucial component to the creative process that feels frustratingly ironic when you are in the throes of bringing something to life, and that is: leisure. You can’t freely create from a place of love if you are running around trying to control the outcome. And yet, things have to get done. I…
Are You a Seed? Part I
I’ve been thinking a lot about seeds lately … I’ve also been incorporating butterflies into my work more, and wondering about an area of my creative life that has remained dormant for many years, that has recently, without explanation, become alive again. (More on that another time.) So more broadly, you could say I’ve been…
Nurture What You Love: the path of creative growth
In my last post I talked about why I am creating a Patreon Page as part of my upcoming product line, The Real Things Collection. Inside this community, you will find resources for keeping your creativity alive in playful ways. Would you like to hear my Patreon Club’s motto? Because we do have one :)….
Coming Soon: Join me on Patreon!
Exciting news, Kindred Spirits! With the launch of my upcoming product line – the Real Things Collection – I’ll be launching a Patreon page: my new subscription-based community for kindred spirits. Why Patreon? If you aren’t familiar with Patreon, it is an online platform for artists to curate a private community and share exclusive content…
