Category Archives: Creativity
Stone and Water and the Red-Cross Driver
I’ve been sitting here, in front of this blank page, for over half an hour. So many thoughts about what I could write have floated in and out of my head, that if strung together, and actually written down, … Continue reading
Posted in change, Creativity, exchange, meditation, movement, Stone and Water and the Red-Cross Driver
Tagged alterations, Beth Nielsen Chapman, boulder in a riverbed, brush against, changes and exchanges, counselor, Creativity, designs, environment, Family, flow, Friends, Goodwill store, holes in soul, meditation, mending, minute, moments, movement, Red-Cross driver, sand, settling, song lyrics, sorting, Stone, strangers, thought process, trance states, water
A Crow and His Shadow
We all have a shadow. I am not speaking about the physical reality that occurs when we stand in any particular light. I am speaking about the shadow aspects of the human psyche. It is often defined as the … Continue reading
Posted in A Crow and His Shadow, Choice, Creativity, fear, myth, Native American, Shadow
Tagged black or white, comfort zone, creative energy, Crow, dangerous and damaging, dark side, Dualistic Mindset, freedoms, happy or sad, hidden, human psyche, Journal Writing, layers of gray, legend, myth, Native American origin, paraphrase, pecking, personal choice, points of diversion, pride, rainbow plumage, right or wrong, secretive, Shadow, shadow aspects, spoiling the image, spotlight, sunlight, tolerate, Western Hemisphere, what ifs, whitish or charcoal gray
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Signature Strokes
In the world of Fine Art, such as painting, one can, if one has the knowledge of such things, know who the painter is without seeing a signature somewhere on the canvas. It has to do with the manner … Continue reading
Posted in Choice, comparisons, Creativity, expression, Fine Art, Individuation, painting, Signature Stroke, writing
Tagged balk, blog, canvas, choices, comparisons, Creativity, cubism, distinguish, expression, fashion designers, Fine Art, focus, Frank Sinatra, happiness, healing, individual, lay down words, Michelangelo, murder, my way, painting, perceptions, Picasso, recognizable, rules, Salvador Dali, schtick, Signature Stroke, subject matter, Van Gogh, worst enemy, writing
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Holes in The Soul
She pictures the broken glass pictures the steam pictures a soul with no leak at the seam __Peter Gabriel Mercy Street Several months ago, I told my counselor about a dream I’d had many years ago, in … Continue reading
Posted in associations, Biography, change, changing the end of the story, Connections, Creativity, Dreams, grief, pain, story, Waking Dreams, wild thing
Tagged changing the end of the story, counselor, dream language, Dream Work, Dreams, emotional, fabric and material, holes in the soul, imagery, imagination, imaging, life experiences, mental, Mercy Street, pain, Peter Gabriel, physical, solutions, spiritual, subconscious mind, techniques, Therapy, visualization, wild things, wilderness
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Map of Awareness
In a recent blog, I used the phrase map of awareness, and its been circling around inside my head ever since. I’m not aware of having ever used the phrase before, so it intrigues me that it sort of … Continue reading
Posted in change, child, Creativity, learning process, Map of Awareness, Personal Story, questions, Record, Steps In Learning, story, Subjectivity, wild thing
Tagged 2nd step in learning process, birth of Wild Thing, change, Creativity, desperate, forming personality, imagination, injured brain, journal pages, know vs aware, Map of Awareness, mile-markers, notebook, Record, sensory input, terms
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Wild Thing III
A Definition and an Example: First things first. What exactly do I mean by the term Wild Thing? I do not mean some sort of slavering monster bent on total annihilation of you, me, or anyone else. I am … Continue reading
Posted in conformity, Creativity, Definitions, expression, Family, Growth, Inner Voices, Life, Poetry, Psycho Within, socialization process, Walt Whitman, wild thing
Tagged child, defintion, desire to create, example, inner howl, nipping at heels, parent, personal, Poetry, poets, Psycho Within, silent learning, Song of Myself, to express, urge, Walt Whitman, wild thing
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Wild Thing
Writer’s Island Journals Prompt #7 Describe the future In the course of growing up, each of us goes through what is called the Socialization process. We learn, are taught to be good useful members of the group. Our teachers are … Continue reading
Posted in boundaries, Choice, conformity, Creativity, Growth, Individuation, socialization process, wild thing
Tagged behavior/s, belonging, civilized, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, concepts, deny, existence, group, individual, inner wilderness, membership, persuasive reason, socialization process, wild thing, worldview
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Different Faces
Yesterday, while browsing through several other WordPress blogs, I found a comment (Spasmically Perfect), in which one writer told another that her muse looked like Danny DeVito. I really liked the idea of my muse wearing a face I could … Continue reading
Posted in Archetype, Creativity, Inner Voices, Journal Writing, Mythology, poem, Poetry, Uncategorized, Writer's Block
Tagged Amazon, change, creative energy, deadlines, different faces, evolution, Medusa, Muse, nightmare, poem, Writer's Block
Curious Confession Time
Okay, I was raised Catholic, went to parochial school, so I know the drill: “Bless me, Technologies, for I found the stats page on this site yesterday.” I did a History major in college, as well as one in English, … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, Choice, Creativity, curiosity, David Cook, enlightenment, Growth, Journal Writing, Life, Observer, Self-Awareness, stats, synchronicity, Uncategorized
Tagged a priori definition, best friend, cat's life, confession, curiosity, David Cook, different lives, gratitude, History major, humor, journey, language, observation, personal experience, questions, stats, technologies, Tubular Root Plant
