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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.

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Alleviating That Thin Constant Writer's Anxiety

Whitney Ferre is on a mission to open you to living life as both the ART and the ARTIST.

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Are You Your Audience?
... I thought to myself (in run-on sentence form), "If I need to change the title and take the fun out of the writing, never mind publishing conventionally, I think I'll just publish the book myself because it is after all, a book on CREATIVITY so I'm thinking MAYBE it can be DIFFERENT." Two months later an agent grabbed the original version and within two weeks, five of the biggest publishing houses in New York were bidding for it. ...

... I had followed the advice of one of the Muses I wrote about—a Muse called Audacity.

Creativity Coaching : Quinn McDonald

Find Your Creative Spark and Fan it into a Flame

Quinn McDonald Interview
An eye-opening look at Quinn's meaning-making life as an artist, writer, and coach.

After 25 years in the corporate world, Quinn McDonald finally gathered the courage to create a different life. She opened her own business, QuinnCreative, to pursue a life rich in experience and use her skills as an artist, writer and speaker to help others create and live the lives they want.

Quinn holds an MA in Folklore/ Popular Culture from California State University at Los Angeles. She graduated from the Coaches Training Institute as a life coach, and is a Certified Creativity Coach. Website: QuinnCreative.com Blog: uinnCreative.wordpress.com.

Creativity Articles by Quinn McDonald

Playing and Growing in a Creative Mastermind Group
By Quinn McDonald
Mastermind Groups are the brainchild of Napoleon Hill, the author of the 1937 book, "Think And Grow Rich."

"What Should I Write in My Journal?"
By Quinn McDonald
The idea of keeping a journal is often more comfortable than actually keeping one.

Too Busy to Keep a Journal? Try One-Sentence Journaling
By Quinn McDonald
Do you wish you could keep a journal, but don't have a lot of time to write in one? Try this creative solution...

Your Art Grows Up and Leaves You
By Quinn McDonald
Turning your artistic creations into salable inventory.

Creativity — Just Like Riding a Motorcycle
By Quinn McDonald
I realized how much riding has in common with being creative.

Moving Out of Your Comfort Zones
By Quinn McDonald
That horrible feeling of awkwardness and stupidity at the beginning of learning a new skill isn't fun.

Wabi Sabi and the Dance of Life
By Quinn McDonald
In a wabi-sabi life, you live within the recognition that all things are impermanent, all things are imperfect, all things are incomplete.

Creative Discipline
By Quinn McDonald
Discipline sounds punitive. Like doing things you don't want to do. The discipline in this article is different. It is the permission to do the things you want — in fact yearn — to do.

Only One Right Answer
By Quinn McDonald
Perception and reality: Creativity is about more than one right answer.

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