Archive for May, 2008
Today’s Take Action Prompt: Creative Habit
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008Developing the ‘Creative Habit’
Create a circle of creativity for yourself. If you have children, then make a creation afternoon and do some arts and crafts or put on a play. In fact, have the children write the play and you perform. Made this a family habit. Visit museums. Volunteer to do art at a […]
Planting Our Creative Garden
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008Spring to me is the perfect time to make plans and set goals. The air begins to vibrate, as everything starts to wake up. The birds are a bit perkier and lunchtime is for walking outside and not just huddling in warm offices. The ground has thawed enough for planting to begin. What we plant […]
Today’s Take Action Prompt: Sensory Explorations
Wednesday, May 21st, 20081. The Box - Fill a box with different small items that have different textures and weight to them. As example you can include a couple pieces of fabric such as burlap, silk or velvet. Put shells, rocks, marbles, keys, etc into the box. Explore it with eyes closed. Are you afraid of what you […]
How Our Senses Influence Our Creativity: Vision
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand. ~ Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of US (1856 […]
Today’s Take Action Prompt: Go Look at Artwork
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008Museum hop - Go look at some artwork. Immerse yourself in color, images and the inspiration of the artist. Think what drove that artist to produce that particular piece of art. View different types of artwork. If you are classicist then see some surreal art. Or if you are avant-garde then spend time looking at […]
A Spiritual Writing
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008“We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.”
~ Stephen Covey
My bookshelves cover a range of books from Eric Butterworth, John Randolph Price, and Marianne Williamson, to the traditional books of the major religions such as the Bible, to the Bhagavad-Gita. My religious upbringing was in […]
Today’s Take Action Prompt: Writing in a Form
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008Try writing in a form. In poetry, play with an acrostic or a more complicated form such as Terza Rima.
Two excellent resources are: The New Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics by Lewis Turco and The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics by Alex Preminger (Editor), et al. Even if you don’t write […]
A Circle of Creativity
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008Creating is a solitary act. It is just you and that darn blank canvas, paper or camera. Many hours are spent alone figuring out what do with an evolving creation. If you are lucky, the art is all consuming and the time passes and you feel exhausted but happy. On the other hand, you could […]