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What will you create in your world today?




Halloween Candy

Even Dum-Dums know where to get good Halloween candy.


Halloween Stories
Halloween

James DeBord

Too Big for Halloween

Guilt by physical association.


Counting on numbers

Creativity 1-2-3

Counting on numbers

Where does the stream flow?

Soul-etry

Dream

The Dream as muse revealing symbols

In my dreams, I am a raven hunting the night on oily wings. A queen in a lonely blue tower. An octopus escaping shyly into a cloud of indigo ink. And you are a hummingbird sucking sweet nectar of paradise from a bloom the color of sky. A bat, biting his dinner out of the air. A man who never stops to ask for directions and travels long and lost on deserted roads.

The symbols, images, people and places found in my dreams are my richest source of inspiration, wisdom, and self-knowledge. Dreams contain riddles, hints and clues, with red herrings galore and winding paths to lead you ever more deeply into your deepest heart.


Spotlight

Art by Angela Blaha

Angela Blaha

The power of negative space

We tend to look at what fills the canvas — the strokes of color, the images that emerge, the story the artist places before us. But just as powerful, and often overlooked, is what is not there. Negative space — the unpainted, the empty, the in-between — isn't absence at all. It is presence in disguise.

Musing

9 Greek Muses

Molly Anderson

Invoking the 9 Greek Muses

The original nine Athenian muses were the nine sister Goddesses of Imagination, Inspiration, and The Arts in ancient Greek mythology. Many cultures have celebrated, worshiped, and tried to entice the Muses: Calliope · Clio · Erato · Euterpe · Melpomene · Polymnia · Terpsichore · Thalia · Urania


Genius habits

Da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

Genius habit: Corporalita

The body as a strong house for creativity.

funmire

Shoehorning

ADVENTure #11

Shoehorning in Lessons

Shoe-making elves and their negotiated lessons.

Strategies

Friedman's sketch

Donald M. Rattner

Creativity Tactic #40

Pick up a pencil.


Inspiring Art

Joy Sikorski

Joy Sikorski

Whimsical drawing lessons

From How to Draw a Clam and Squeaky Chalk.

Essay

Perfect Personal Essay

Nancy Slonim Aronie

Crafting the story only you can write

Write in a way that moves, connects, and resonates.

Writing

Erasmus

Estelle Erasmus

Writing that gets noticed

Get your essay writing ideas flowing and seen.


Creativity Coaching

Collage

Jill Allison Bryan

Yoga Don't and Imperfectionism

Give yourself permission to be imperfect.

Teaching children

Fostering Creativity in Children

Abby Connors

Improvisation Helps Children Learn

10 Ways to engagement.


Art-making

Painting

Robert Joyner

Mastering Watercolors: 4 Drawing Skills

Take your at from average to exceptional.

People

Art of the Song

John Dillon

The history of creativity

The current creativity renaissance.

Printables

Swing into creative play

Chris Dunmire

Swing into creative play!

18 mini-golf brain-stretchers. Play now!


Writing

Memoir as Medicine

Memoir as Medicine

Why Write?

If no one ever reads what you write, will you still be fine?

Deeper

SoulCollage

SoulCollage®

Inner Rebel

What is it leading you to?

Muses

Bea Silly

Modern Day Muses

Fun: Elixir of Spontaneous Ideas

Play, laugh, and dance with Bea Silly.