Catching The Ball

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. — Claude Bernard We have been spending some time in this chapter going deeper into our dark memories of the losses that our artist self has endured. From our long ago baby steps that were shamed or thwarted, to more recent attempts … Read more

Staying In Touch With Ourselves

Success is bounding from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. — Winston Churchill Just because our creativity is (I believe with all my heart) guided and sourced from the Divine, this does not mean that the road is always easy, without bumps and potholes. In fact, sometimes, there will be chasms! To be … Read more

Listening to the Muse-ic

Drawing Hands by M. C. EscherThis, then, is salvation: When we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise their beautiful Creator. — Meister Eckhart This is where things get really interesting, my friends. If we are serious about our creativity, we must learn to dance with it, knowing when to push, when to … Read more

Money and Creative Recovery

Money is the blood of the planet.Heal the money and we can heal the world. — Barbara Wilder, Money is Love Now in Chapter Six, we arrive at one of the biggest challenges in our creative recovery. Money, abundance, being supported in our endeavors in terms of cold, hard cash. At the risk of boring … Read more

The Puritan Ethic Redux

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. — Woody Allen Many of us have already run into money obstacles that threaten to hinder our creative desires. After all, we may have awakened some wild, long-lost dreams but we also live in the real world, don’t we? We may be managing to survive … Read more

Breaking the Virtue Trap

St. Francis – Frederick Franck These drawings were done for one reason only: to see before I die. — Frederick Franck The bottom line of discovering and recovering our sense to what is possible is to examine why we feel like we have to edit or defer who we are, in order to seem “good” … Read more