creativity

The 12 Days of Creativity… Day 1

Christmas is just 12 days away; the end of the year just another week more. Choose one area of your life you’d like to change. And join me for 12 Days of Creativity as I give you the framework to create something new there, one day at a time.

Celebrating The Creative Harvest

Today I swam in the English Channel, and she shared her creative harvest with me. Harvest is the final station of the Wheel of Creativity, which describes life as a creative journey to which we are each called by our hunger for something more. From the first station (Hunger) to the last (Harvest), our responses determine the quality of our crops. And this is where we always have a choice.

Life is a Creative Adventure: A Profile

This morning, again, I find myself deeply touched by the creative adventure that life is… from the cradle to the grave. Each day, as I make my pilgrimage to be baptized in the sea, I am privileged to be present for the testimony of another personal story to the beauty of being alive. This morning, there are two.

Creativity, Mindfulness and the Malicious Post

Getting trapped in trying to change things that can’t be changed robs us of our power to change what we can. Circumstances are the most powerful partners we have for choreographing our lives. I may have cracked a rib last Sunday night. But, three creative guidelines emerged from that traumatic moment…

An original egg

Several weeks ago, when I was doing my grocery shopping at Carrefour (the WalMart of France), I saw this egg in the tray. I picked it up and held it in my hand; and instantly we drew a small crowd of people who found the egg equally disturbing. “C’est bizarre” was their assessment. Well, that cinched it. I had to have it.