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Halloween Candy

Bulk up for Halloween with your favorite chocolate candy.


Halloween Stories
Halloween

Stefanie Wass

Halloween Hoopla

It's easy to get carried away at Halloween time.


SniderBird

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The power of playful connections

The variety of ways you can surround yourself in playful community.

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

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

Creativity 101

James C. Kaufman, PhD

Creativity and Mysticism

The history of creativity research started with mysticism.

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Inner child

funmire

Embracing your inner child

Children are the ultimate role models for playfulness.

Strategies

Window view of trees

Donald M. Rattner

The Psychology of Space

Impact of environment.


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

Cookie Fortune Maker (CFM)

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Cookie Fortune Maker

The World's Oldest Microblogging Platform takes its seat in the long history of social media

Creativity Coaching

Rethinking Depression

Eric Maisel

The Existential Ideal

...and its reality.

Teaching children

Fostering Creativity in Children

Abby Connors

Creating music + dance with children

Building confidence and thinking skills.


Art-making

Daffodil

Joy Sikorski

Draw a daffodil

From How to Draw a Radish.

People

Drawing

Jeff Scarterfield

Cartoonist & Martial Artist

Creative careers interview.

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

Art by Angela Blaha

Angela Blaha

Artists Lead Revolutions

It's rarely the politicians or institutions that ignite true revolutions.