Creativity should be an everyday experience. Creativity should be as common as breathing. We breathe, therefore, we create. – Erwin Raphael McManus in the book, “The Artisan Soul” 2015 – Create! For 2015, my word is CREATE. Not nurture (like nurturing my creativity theme last October), practice (everything I’ve learned) or even creativity. No, the…
For the final assignment in my close-up photography class, we were to take a photograph of something with four different textures. After a great deal of experimentation, I ended up four fairly boring pictures of a pear that we had. So, to make it more appealing to me, I ran it through Topaz Effects…
October was an eventful month, from work having the number one tax return deadline of the year (October 15) to traveling with my daughter to Maine for a long weekend. In-between all of that, I blogged daily for 31 Days. Back on October 1, I set out my expectations and reasons for doing it: To focus…
At some point, every writer wonders if his or her stories are important, and if anyone will ever care about them. . . I told him writing, like Tai Chi, was internal, not external. It is about feeling and honesty, if something wants to come out, it needs to come out. One has to set…
Pick a direction, start marching down that path and see how you like it. Time brings clarity and if you find you don’t like it, you can always change your mind. It’s your life. – Gary Keller & Jay Papasan, The One Thing The Short Version After reading “The One Thing” by Gary Keller and…
It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about? – Henry David Thoreau Among the things I’ve done recently to nurture my creativity is to finish the book, “The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results” by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan. I’ve been…
This week’s assignment for my close-up photography course (I discussed in more detail here) was to use items from the kitchen or bathroom. The three above turned out really well. I especially like the bubbles that’s almost entirely green. But wait until you see what didn’t turn out. I spent all afternoon working on this…
Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter’s deadness; harvest; orange, gold, amber; cool nights and the smell of fire. Our tree-lined streets are set ablaze, our kitchens filled with the smells of nostalgia: apples bubbling into sauce, roasting squash, cinnamon, nutmeg,…
When you assess your own life, consider it with the eye of a gardener. Underneath the surface lies rich, fertile soil waiting to nurture the seeds you sow. Even more than you can imagine will grow there if given a chance. ― Steve Goodier, Author As I re-read my post from yesterday on balancing my…
Living The Seasons 