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Halloween Candy

Bulk up for Halloween with your favorite chocolate candy.


Halloween Fun

Halloween candy

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Find the bad candy

Results from most hated candy are in.


Halloween

Rachel Chesnut

All-American Halloween Scare

So maybe I could have skipped the pinata.

Soul-etry

Home

Art and writing prompts to bring you home

My heart's true home is on Venus. I want to fly away free. I will live in a sparrow's nest and call the raven my brother, the sky my sister, the wind my home. The jackdaw knows my real name and all the crickets are singing.

My true home is the moment before a thunderstorm breaks over the plains, air electric and green with an eldritch light. Dusk draws out long and long in the north in the summertime.

Listen — mama is calling me in before it gets too dark, her voice the first voice I ever heard. She was my first home, but I drifted away. Absinthe sends me sailing on an indigo midnight voyage in a fragile origami boat. I am rocked to sleep by moonlight and the sweet tender whispers of young girls.


Spotlight

Art by Angela Blaha

Angela Blaha

Art as an act of time travel

Every creative act carries an imprint of the moment it was born. A brushstroke holds the energy of a heartbeat; a phrase carries the breath of the one who wrote it. When another person encounters the work, it is as if they touch that moment directly.

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

Genius Habits

Genius Habits

Unblock Creative Expression

Getting out of a rut.

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Creative ADVENTures

ADVENTure #2

Playful Ways to Ramp Up Creative Energy

It doesn't take an Einstein to realize that playing is good for us.

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.


Interact

The Great Creativity Illuminator

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The Great Creativity Illuminator

Curious? Crack your openness to experience and let the light shine in!

Creativity Coaching

Collage

Jill Allison Bryan

Spoiled food leads to fresh start

Reframing is such an easy to use, yet powerful, tool.

Teaching children

Fostering Creativity in Children

Abby Connors

The Secret Life of Puppets

What stories, props, and costumes stir in children.


Art-making

Pterodactyl

Joy Sikorski

Draw a pterodactyl

From Squeaky Chalk.

People

Bones

Natalie Goldberg

'Writing Down the Bones' Author

I don't believe in writer's block. The cure: pick up the pen and get moving.

Printables

Swing into creative play

Chris Dunmire

Swing into creative play!

18 mini-golf brain-stretchers. Play now!


Writing

Perfect Personal Essay

Perfect Personal Essay

Incorporate the Three-Part Narrative

You really do need a structure when writing personal narrative.

Deeper

SoulCollage

SoulCollage®

Intuition

How are you guided?

Muses

Polyhymnia

9 Greek muses

Polymnia

Muse of sacred song, oratory, lyric poetry