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What will you create in your world today?




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

Allie Hoggatt

Wrong Door

A humorous recollection.

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

Stimulate Creative Genius

Five habits.

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Tarotble card readings

Madam Bedazzle

Tarotble Card Readings

TaKe WhAt'S UsEfUL and leave the rest.

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.


Creativity Coaching

Collage

Jill Allison Bryan

Garden Variety Overwhelm and Lowering Expectations

How small seeds of creativity grow into big things.

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

Valerie Day Interview

Valerie Day

Nu Shooz musician and vocal coach

Valerie fronted a Grammy-nominated band in the 80s in heavy rotation on MTV.

Printables

Swing into creative play

Chris Dunmire

Swing into creative play!

18 mini-golf brain-stretchers. Play now!


Writing

Boring Meeting

Matthew Dicks

8 Audience Engagement Hacks

Audience attention and engagement are not givens.

Deeper

Art by Angela Blaha

Angela Blaha

The power of negative space

The paradoxical nature of pauses in art and life.

Muses

Melpomene

9 Greek muses

Melpomene

A guide for the lost.