#live creatively

She Won't Sail Without THIS! | Boat Life Ep. 35

She Won't Sail Without THIS! | Boat Life Ep. 35 Category Travel & Events Description: A big thank you to Squarespace for sponsoring this video and helping make these projects possible aboard Penelope. If you’d like to open your own online shop … TopTrengingTV Hunting the most trend video of the moment, every hour every day 24/7. Youtube Video Data Published At: 2021-02-02T16:00:00Z   Tags: …

One Week in the Boatyard | Boat Life Ep. 34

One Week in the Boatyard | Boat Life Ep. 34 Category Travel & Events Description: This is one of the chill, beautiful weeks when we work our way through boat projects while enjoying the slower rhythm of our new life. Wake up, meditate, make … TopTrengingTV Hunting the most trend video of the moment, every hour every day 24/7. Youtube Video Data Published At: 2021-01-26T16:00:16Z   Tags: …

Kiddo & Me Paint Night at the kidlets' school tonight.

My spouse painted a gingerbread clock tower.

I painted a lazy resting Baba Yaga ginger hut.

10 year old kidlet painted an Illuminati gingerbread hideout w/ slenderman. /em shrug

The Creative Journey by Tim Cigelske

Each and every page of The Creative Journeyby Tim Cigelske was a delight for me to read. There were quotes from my favorite creative people, Jim Henson, Joseph Campbell, and Mr. Rogers. Excerpts from the writings of Buddha and the bible were scattered like wildflower seeds throughout the text. Real life creative success stories and commentary from Professor Cigelske’s college students drove…

This is a question I have often pondered and I think that we are all creative to a degree but there is always a choice. The creative path is presented to us, but it doesn’t force itself on us. For it to take root in us, we have to say yes, come and turn my life upside down!  We have to be willing to go on the journey, to give it room. There’s plenty of pressure to say no, I need to grow up, get a proper job, get a mortgage, provide for my family, get realistic… but still some choose to say yes.  If you are one of those people who thinks you don’t know if you have what it takes, then say yes to the adventure and start taking steps.  Who knows where you will end up?  If you say no, that’s fine, go and have another adventure with your life, the creative path is not for everyone.  If you have slowed down or been side tracked but still feel the call to create then keep going! There is enough time, it starts with today.

Should we choose to accept the creative mantel in our lives, it will grow in us until becomes like an instinct or urge to create that can’t suppressed, and then no matter how many times we try to turn our back on it, it won’t leave us alone, for it has taken root.  It is like the way my cat follows me around the house when she wants to be fed, and just sits just behind me silently.  She waits there as if to say, ‘When are you going to pay attention to me?’  Once we have said yes, it remains a part of us, gently calling.  Mary Oliver, in her book ‘Upstream’ recognises this call and the price for not responding to it.  She puts it like this: ‘The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.’

My new book: Circles: Nurture and Grow your Creative Gift talks about how to say yes to this creative call, how to give it time, how to keep going despite discouragements, how to find your voice and be all that you were intended to be. 

Starting the journey need not be a scary thing or a big thing.  It all starts with today.  It begins with just the smallest step.

Circles: Nurture and Grow Your Creative Gift (ISBN 978-1-78815-733-9) will be released on April 1st 2019 and is published by Onwards and Upwards. It will be available from onwardsandupwards.org, Amazon and all good bookshops. You will also be able to find it in my etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/LittleBirdEditions