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Halloween Candy

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


Halloween Stories
Halloween

Chelsea Robinson

Fantôme

I'm not sure what exactly my reason is for wanting to go sit at Samanden lake every time I take a drive. I just know that when I do, I feel obliged to go there and take pictures. It's a dazzling lake, especially in the month of October when the leaves fall and the wind blows them across the water. Supposedly nobody visited often because it was haunted, but its charm never kept me away.

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

Da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

Genius habits: Sfumato

Opening to experience.

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Math grave

PUN-ish #1

Math grave

The place where subtracted, reduced, and rounded numbers go.

Strategies

Painting

Whitney Freya

Create a Quantum Leap

New ways of doing things.


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

What Do Treatments Really Do?

Maybe it isn't an exact science but more like an art.

Teaching children

Fostering Creativity in Children

Abby Connors

Creating music + dance with children

Building confidence and thinking skills.


Art-making
Popcorn

Ira Verant

Doodling Popcorn Boosts IQ

Free popcorn drawing book.

People

Profiles of Creative Empowerment

Nina Surel

A Touch of the Feminine

Miami's synergistic artist community crowned and arranged in la hispanidad.

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®

Worth

Affirming your values.

Muses

Albert

Modern Day Muses

Einstein-like

Imagine and innovate with Albert.