photo credit: garycycles3 The artist Henri Matisse is credited with the saying “Creativity takes courage.” Do you agree that creativity takes courage? For me, creativity takes different things at varying times or cycles. Courage is probably found in one of those cycles. Today, for example, I will head out on a mini-retreat to work on [...]
Many experts, including Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D., believe we are all born with a creative fire within us. What is your passion? How hot is your fire burning? If your fire is cooling, you might consider hiring a creativity coach to help you stoke the flames. A certified Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach, such as myself, is [...]
Certainly my poetry and prose sounded much better in my youthful days, under the swagger of a few gin and tonics consumed along Amsterdam Avenue or during the hazy nights watching the Vltava River flow past. But the next morning, hangover in hand, my writing would return to a desk drawer. My writerly confidence tucked [...]