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Natalie Goldberg On 'Thunder and Lightning'
Do you feel you need to write a book right away to qualify as a writer? What's the next step in writing a book once you have your written notes together? There are preconceived ideas about writing and Natalie puts them to rest.

To Improve Your Creative Output and Innovation, Improve Your Ideas.

'Dr. Hope' And His Act Of Kindness
Get to know the "doctor" and his charitable contributions to society. See how he works with teachers so that they can get the needed supplies, books and other things for their students.

Tim Anders (Doctor Hope) has certainly had an interesting childhood. His mother was an actress and his father was a Catholic priest which indeed created problems with family life.

From Destruction To Creations: Destroyed trees in city park carved into beautiful works of art. Devastation from fierce storms prompts something beautiful to be created out of the destruction. Sometimes, bad things can be turned into something useful, even beautiful.

Mourning the loss of these sacred trees was surely a dark time for Amboy Illinois residents, but it's what happened next—how the people chose to respond to the tragedy that makes my heart soar. It's an inspiring example of allowing the light of possibility to shine through the darkness of defeat.

See also the tree sculptures that were created.

Authors : Whitney Ferre

Creatively Fit Inspiration with Whitney Ferré

Whitney Ferre' is on a mission to open you to living life as both the ART and the ARTIST. Her books, including The Artist Within, A Guide to Becoming Creatively Fit, website, online programs, speaking engagements, retreats, and workshops empower "non-artists" to conquer the fear of the "paintbrush" and realize the potential that lies within your right brain/creative mind & spirit. For her art making is the vehicle all of us can take to CREATE the change we want to see in our world.

"A catalytic, transformational experience is realized when my clients and audience realize that it is within their power to create the change they desire and that their creative mind is the portal through which this change can occur. It is all about balancing the fear and logic of left brain thinking with the intuition, vision, and manifesting abilities of the right hemisphere. As they learn to MAKE THEIR MARK on the canvas they develop the same ability to do so in the art of their life."

Creatively Fit provides the forum and the tools, just as a gym provides for athletes, for anyone to introduce new, creative activity into their daily routine to strengthen their creative mental muscle. Whitney has presented her fun, technicolor approach at The Esalen Institute, the Creative Education Foundation, the American Creativity Association, this October (2011), in South Africa, at the International Creativity Conference, and, this November, at Breitenbush Hot Springs near Portland, OR. Dan Pink and Michael Gelb are Among endorsers of her books and you can read and experience much more at www.creativelyfit.com.

Creativity Articles by Whitney Ferre

How to Create a More Intentional Life
By Whitney Ferre
With Just 30 Pieces of Paper.

The Eight Principles of Design
By Whitney Ferre
The principles of design are not the result of a panel of art academics who felt the need to create more rules.

Everything I Ever Needed to Know I Learned Painting
By Whitney Ferre
The four main steps to the Creatively Fit painting process.

My Top 10 Ways to Create a Quantum Leap
By Whitney Ferre
What is a “Quantum Leap” and why would you want to create one?

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