Restless? Practice Patience in Your Creative Work
MONDAY TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 4/17/2023 Theme, Knight of Wands. Wands is the element of Fire in the realm of spirit, creativity, career, and work. The Knight is the champion, the one trained to serve and protect the realm, the one with the tools and equipment to do what is needed and desired. This […]
Use Compassion & Patience to Meet Creative Challenges
MONDAY TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 10/31/22. Theme, Strength. This Major Arcana card is not about outer muscular strength, but rather about inner strength, fortitude. And certainly, to be a creative in any way requires an inner fortitude in order to face rejections, criticisms, critiques and more. But this week, whatever your obstacle, fear, or […]
Be Patient with Your Creative Process and Project
MONDAY TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 3/1/2021 Theme, 7 of Coins. Coins is the element of Earth in the realm of anything physical, home, health, wealth, anything you can touch, taste, or feel. Seven is a number of action or the contemplation of it. Here the farmer stands observing and waiting for the grain and […]
5 Tips for a Long Marriage to Your Muse
Bob and I celebrated 43 years of marriage last week. Add an additional year of being engaged and a year of dating before that, and we have been sharing our lives for 45 years. That’s a long time to spend with one person…in close quarters…come hell or high water. A l-o-n-g time. People often comment […]
Are You Hatching or Smashing?
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. Arnold H. Glasow, business man and humorist I have a new respect for caregivers, professional and otherwise, after spending a week providing care and support to my 85-year-old maternal aunt who recently returned home, after surgery and […]
From Bird Watching to Muse Catching
This past Sunday was Father’s Day here in the US. But I called my dad on Saturday because I didn’t want to deal with busy phone lines or trying to catch Dad when he was home and not at church or on the phone with one of my other three siblings. I wanted time to […]
STOP Microwaving Your Creativity
I get it. I really do. Time is short and passes quickly. You are busy with a hundred and one things. And in today’s world of technology where information sharing and business occurs at the speed of nanoseconds, the oft-times snail-like process of creativity can become extremely frustrating. So we look for ways to essentially […]
The Muse Is In—with Jill Badonsky, Author and Creativity Coach
I am so delighted to have Jill Badonsky on my blog this week as part of her blog tour to promote her magical book,”The Muse is In: An Owner’s Manual for Your Creativity.” I loved having the opportunity to ask her some questions about creativity. If you’d like to hear more from Jill, then sign […]
Are You a Good Parent…for Your Creative Work?
Raising children is like baking bread: it has to be a slow process or you end up with an overdone crust and an underdone interior. ~ Madeline Cox Last week, I spent hours every day on my feet, in a chair, but mostly on the floor trying to come up with ways to entertain my […]
Into the Woods: 5 Tips for Clarity in Your Creative Path
Autumn…makes a double demand. It asks that we prepare for the future—that we be wise in the ways of garnering and keeping. But it also asks that we learn to let go—to acknowledge the beauty of sparseness. ~Bonaro W. Overstreet It is deep autumn here in the Northeast. Most of the trees, except the oaks, […]