Today is my birthday and celebrating birthdays is a big deal for me! It has been every since I was growing up when I got to invite as many kids as my new age to a birthday party. Inviting 58 people to my house for cake and ice cream doesn’t work so well with our…
I can feel changes coming in my bones, but I don’t know what they are. Actually… it may not matter what I change. The important thing is to make changes, to invite in new ways of thinking and being. So… I started the ball rolling with a new hair cut. This is the time of…
Each day is filled with steps forward. Some are so easy that you hardly notice. Others are clunky, difficult or challenging in some way and call for a bit of extra attention. Here are some questions that can smooth your way forward: Where I am now? What would be good to take with me? What…
Three weeks ago some friends and I were talking about not having time to do art just for us. We had the normal excuse of “too much to do.” In the spirit of solidarity, we each chose a way to add art making into our week. Even though we purposely chose something doable, there was…
Twenty years ago I was good friends with three other mothers of young children. One of the beautiful things about that friendship was that we didn’t tell each other what to do. We listened and encouraged each other to hear our own inner voices and find our own answers. What we do at the Creative…
Sometimes you know right away you are experiencing a magical moment, and other times they slip in quietly to be discovered later. Every journey has magical moments, whether you are physically traveling or taking an inner journey, perhaps with a book or a retreat. Magical moments are experiences or new understandings that would not have…
Have you ever felt that empowered, ready-to-go feeling leaving a gas station with a full tank of gas? As I left the gas station with that full-steam ahead feeling, I realized it wasn’t the the arrow on my dashboard that was lifting me up. I was feeling empowered by a full internal energy reservoir! I had…