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Tag Archives: Creativity
Why Beauty Matters, Now More Than Ever
“Art once made a cult of beauty; now we have a cult of ugliness instead.” – Sir Roger Scruton, Why Beauty Matters, BBC 2, 2009 I just spent a delightful afternoon watching a film made by an unexpected ally: the … Continue reading
Posted in Beauty, Book #2: Double Take, Look at That! book, Musings on Life, Tip Jar
Tagged Beauty, Creativity, Inspiration, Looking, Perseverance
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Don’t Let Your Momentum Block an Insight
Have you ever purchased an art instruction book, brought it home, flipped through it admiring all the pretty pictures, then set it down to “read thoroughly… later”? I’ve done that more times than I care to admit. Here’s my reading … Continue reading
Posted in Book #2, Musings on Life, Tip Jar, Writing
Tagged Creativity, Memoir, momentum, motivation
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In praise of weird-shaped containers
Sometimes all you need is a weird-shaped target area to overcome perceived obstacles. Notice I said, “perceived.” Most of time, what’s keeping us from writing, from sketching, from taking up guitar, or even harmonica is the crazy notion that we … Continue reading
Posted in Cartoons, Pen & Ink, Seeing and looking, Sketchbooks, Watercolor
Tagged Creative Habit, Creativity, Golden Mean, Inspiration, Sketchbooks
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The Greatness of Blue: a holiday season story
It was the 24th day of the last month of the year, snow was everywhere, and all the summer birds had long since headed south for the winter. Or so the villagers thought. The townsfolk were busy trying to keep … Continue reading
Posted in Cartoons, Musings on Life, Watercolor, Writing
Tagged Community, Creativity, Hope, Inspiration, Perseverance, storytelling, Writing Habit
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Art Therapy: A Misunderstanding
Let’s begin to address all that is wrong in our human world. Play with this idea for a few minutes — a step-by-step guide. Think about the 5 senses of Sight, Smell, Sound, Taste, Touch. Pick one to be your … Continue reading
The Superpower of Now-and-Next
I recently returned from a four-day vacation to the coast of Maine, and realized that on vacation, it’s easy to slip into a different relationship with Time. At work, your Time is all tied up with other people’s Time. Time … Continue reading
Posted in Musings on Life, My Story, Tip Jar, Writing
Tagged Creative Habit, Creativity, Inspiration, Perseverance, time management
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Brickwork of Concord
Do you ever stop to think about all the brickwork in your world? It’s everywhere, and yet almost invisible. Interesting facts: A standard red brick in the United States is 3.625 inches deep by 2.25 inches high by 8 inches … Continue reading
A piece of unexpected art equipment
If you’re like me and you haven’t totally divorced yourself from Amazon, you probably have received more than one piece of blue-and-white bubble wrap packaging from them. That packaging may be hard to recycle, but it’s dead simple to repurpose. … Continue reading
“Look at that!” said the soon-to-be author.
I’m writing a book. Yes, I’m as surprised as you are. I see now why, for the past two months, I have written so many blog posts about staying grounded, finding equanimity with outside distractions, and not letting your lists … Continue reading
Gentle Momentum
I was talking with a friend recently about the difference between inspiration and duty. Sure enough, within 12 hours, I came across not one but three webinars whose focus was on just that, so here we are. Have you ever … Continue reading
Aloft with Inspiration 