Monthly Archives: February 2009
Cosmic Creativity Studio – taking a moment to de-stress…
I can just drop into a story line at anytime and begin taking notes. I don’t do it
in order, so if I don’t remember where I was last time I make up a new character, who is a poet
or topless dancer, and most likely, both. Continue reading
Filed under Creativity
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate; Continue reading
Filed under Poetry I Love
Life As Art
The thing is, we really can have more creative vitality right now without changing anything physical in our life – at first. Because of course, it starts with our own thoughts. Our headset and our heartset. How we THINK about what IS in our lives. A lot of times, any free space we have to actually THINK is taken up with so much to do and so many stories of the past and so many endlessly looping thought patterns that a moment of stillness is the last thing on our minds! Continue reading
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My Sparkley Suit
When you were a little girl growing up did you:
a. want to be a nun and a solid gold dancer?
b. wonder why fitting in meant not acting like yourself?
c. want to save the world and felt like you actually could?
d. pretend your bicycle was a galloping horse?
e. wonder if being a bad girl was funner than being a good girl?
draw yourself with a crown on your head?’
wonder if being a bad girl was funner than being a good girl?
or were you one of the bad girls?
or were you BOTH the bad girl and the good girl? Continue reading
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The Heart of Things
Some things in my world are as hard as they have ever been – but some things are sweeter than ever. Like my relationships with the people I love – and most especially – my beloved husband, Isaiah McCloud. We have been married now for over fourteen years… Continue reading
Filed under Love Letters
If By Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too; Continue reading
Filed under Poetry I Love
Freedom in Discipline #30 Love Letter
o choose discipline for me, means I am liberated to do what I am here to do:
to minister. to serve. to teach. to bless. to invite. To provide an alternative approach. To cause a creativity revolution. For me, sharing creativity is sharing love – it is my call to action. My heart. My offering.
Continue reading
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Letting the Change, Change Me
I recognize that it is inspiration that furthers me,
not making myself wrong for not being better, stronger, more.
I will repent of the ways I have hurt myself and others. Continue reading
Filed under Poetry and Prose
The Circus Animal’s Desertion by Yeats
My circus animals were all on show,
Those stilted boys, that burnished chariot,
Lion and woman and the Lord knows what. Continue reading
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