Apr 28, 2018 Art and Creativity
You want to make it don’t you? That thing that’s been nagging at you for weeks or years. It feels big. It’s tugging at your sleeve. It won’t leave you alone, although you do your very best to ignore it. “Create me!” It says, so innocently. As if it were the simplest...
May 30, 2016 Art and Creativity
Because if you do, you will gift to the world expressions and stories that only you can give. And we want them. Need them even. You see beauty that no one else sees. You hear truth that no one else listens to. You have a belief in the goodness of the world that is...
Oct 15, 2015 Art and Creativity
When people ask me what I do, I say “I’m a writer.” Though that declaration is relatively recent, my history of writing is not. I wrote my first poem at age 7. I posted it on facebook recently – it got more likes than my contemporary writing. I wrote songs for many...
Jul 4, 2015 Art and Creativity
You’re here for a reason. It’s not a mistake. You have to work to do. You have things to create, wisdom to convey, gifts to offer. Your work is just that. It is your Work. It is unique. And if you don’t create it, the world will never have it. Your work is something...
Apr 28, 2015 Art and Creativity
“I can’t write today, I’m not feeling inspired.” “There’s no way I can launch this new thing without the logo being finished.” “One day, I’ll be ready to create that thing I’ve been dreaming about. One day.” Resistance. The albatross around the neck of every creative...
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