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What will you create in your world today?




Halloween Candy

Bulk up for Halloween with your favorite chocolate candy.


Halloween Stories
Halloween

Andrea Samuels

Matilda's Halloween Dreams

A ghost or goblin in the basement?


Foreshadow

ADVENTure #9

Foreshadow Card

Halls Deck™ history.

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

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

Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time

Sustaining the creative process.

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Butterfly

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Why not make life more playful?

Benefits of embracing curiosity, humor, and a light-hearted spirit.

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

Art by Karen Blessen

Jill Allison Bryan

How one bullet sparked creative chaos

One bullet sparked a series of events that would change Karen Blessen's life forever.

Teaching children

Fostering Creativity in Children

Abby Connors

Validate creative ideas

Valuing ideas in children.


Art-making

Car

Joy Sikorski

Draw a vacationer's car

From How to Draw a Clam.

People

Profiles of Creative Empowerment

Hedy Lamarr

Patent Beauty, Patent Invention

A Hollywood starlet in a luminescent observatory has waited for the exact moment to enter the spotlight.

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®

Creative boundaries

Where do they begin?

Muses

Bea Silly

Modern Day Muses

Fun: Elixir of Spontaneous Ideas

Play, laugh, and dance with Bea Silly.