Thursday, February 5, 2009
There’s a reason the word housework includes the word work. Like many highly sensitive people, I have an Explore This list that scrolls across the floor and into the next room. Is housework on the list? Get real. The strain of high sensitivity that runs through my family tends to accompany a genetic aversion to […]
Blurt out a harebrained scheme. ~~~ Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process. Look for a new one every Friday day. Also see Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for a treasure trove of websites, books, articles, tools, quotes, and more – all carefully chosen to spark your genius. Related posts: Creativity Prompts […]
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Typography, like cartography, lures me with the promise of esoteric depths. What secrets do the seers of these realms know? A recent foray into the world of typography captivated me to the point of near-breathlessness. There are worlds of joy within even a font style. It doesn’t surprise me that Robert Bringhurst, author of The […]
Stop defending your position and see what changes. ~~~ Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process. Look for a new one every Friday day. Also see Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for a treasure trove of websites, books, articles, tools, quotes, and more – all carefully chosen to spark your genius. Related […]
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Spark Your Genius What do you do when you get stuck? When the ideas have dried up, but the deadline looms? When your relationship is in a rut? When the story needs a fresh twist? When there’s not enough money, time, or energy? Creativity prompts can spark your genius into action, whatever your endeavour – […]
What would a happy eight-year-old do at this point? ~~~ This is the first weekly Creativity Prompt, designed to deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process. Look for a new one every Friday day. Related posts: The Power of Creativity Play Anyway
Thursday, January 15, 2009
“My absolute favorite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.” ~ Douglas Adams Every unfulfilled wish requires a reach. It’s unfulfilled because it requires a reach. And a reach risks a fall. […]
Thursday, January 8, 2009
What did you wish for over the holidays? Did you come up with any resolutions for the New Year? What filters did you put your wants through before they were spoken out loud or written down? Using a reality filter makes sense. We want to want things we have a hope of getting. Stretch the […]
“No problem can be solved from the level of consciousness that created it.” ~ Albert Einstein I take much of life to heart, feeling and sensing my way through the days, aiming for the miraculous place just before feeling fully spills over into feeling too much. Cue the circus music. What do I do when […]
Thursday, December 25, 2008
My goal with this Christmas Day article is simply to make you laugh. I thought I’d tell a few jokes (What’s brown and sticky? … A stick.) and provide a few links to humorous articles. Maybe later. I’m too busy wiping tears of laughter from my eyes after researching Bookseller Magazine‘s Diagram Prize for Oddest […]
Thursday, December 18, 2008
I have a little fantasy about a reset button, probably prompted by my love of science fiction. When I’ve maneuvered myself into a state of overwhelming complexity or pushed myself harder than is healthy, I imagine that I actually have a reset button. It’s located in the part of my back that I can’t reach […]
Paulina Bustamante pursues her dream of acting with an all-encompassing joy that’s infectious. She’s honing her acting skills at Vancouver’s Lyric School of Acting, using her high sensitivity as an asset. In person, Paulina shines (even more so when she’s talking about acting). Her hands gesture. Her eyes sparkle and connect. She laughs often and […]
Preparing for an earthquake is too freaky. I only accomplished it by taking what I called nanosteps, steps so infinitesimal I was done before the heebie-jeebies set in. Author and artist SARK, in her book Make Your Creative Dreams Real, calls such small steps microMOVEments. Robert Maurer has gone even further and written a book […]
