Life is a Creative Process. Trust it.


I went to the beach this morning for swim. It’s very hot here these days, and I find if I can cool down my core temperature in the morning I’m comfortable for the rest of the day. This morning the waters were a bit turbulent. My swimming buddy told me he was nervous. A little girl in her father’s arms cried. And I got to thinking about the difference between trusting the water and fighting against it and what a good metaphor this is for life. When a person goes...

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Happy Spring! A New Season of Creativity


Today is the first day of Spring.  Harbinger of all things new and vibrant and pure. Like the four seasons in each year, The Wheel of Creativity is divided into four quarters. As you move around the Wheel from Home to Chaos and back again, these four quarters, like seasons, take you into new energetic places.     Four Quarters of the Wheel Vision is the domain of the mind and corresponds to the element of air. It is where your thoughts rule, and where ideas are...

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Happy Valentine’s Day


Whatever their shape, size, color or creed… there is a great big world of people to love. We all have a Valentine. Let love flow through you today. Happy Valentine’s Day! from The Wheel of Creativity and Katherine Robertson-Pilling  

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Creative Transformation: No Guru, No Method, No Teacher


The Call One of my first big creative adventures came in 1994. I was living in Chicago and had just received a fellowship for a Master’s program in Interdisciplinary Arts at Columbia College when I got the call. The intuitive calling, which came through my morning writing practice, was to leave Chicago and move to LA. I had no rational explanation, no job, no place to live in LA and only one friend there. I made my living as a writer, but the calling was not to write in LA...

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Creativity on the Sidewalk: How to Feather Your Nest


What has Life given you today to create with? Last week, as I left the sushi takeaway near my flat, I stepped out onto the sidewalk and turned toward home. Suddenly I realized, out of the corner of my eye I had glimpsed something extraordinary. I turned back to see a tiny bird’s nest in the middle of the sidewalk. No bird in sight. I had almost missed it. Instead I turned back, picked it up, and held it carefully between two fingers. The walk home, with this tiny treasure...

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