As I tell my stories of my vision quest in the desert, I will be offering them to you in the form of a myth, a tale. All of it happened to me, but I hope by offering it to you in the form of a story, like many stories we have heard in life,…
If I told you that I feel different on a molecular level, perhaps that would explain why I haven’t posted to FB really since I returned from my Vision Quest a few days ago. I am stuck in ceremonial mind. From the first day I entered my Quest at the Joshua Tree Retreat Centre at…
I’m writing this after a greasy airport breakfast as I wait to board my flight to get me to my, um, what do I call it? It is called a Vision Quest. According to the literature it is something one is ‘called’ for. I have been calling it a retreat because I think Vision Quest…
I value only artists who really are artists, that is, who consciously or unconsciously, in an entirely original form, embody the expression of their inner life; who work only for this end and cannot work otherwise’ Wassily Kandinsky from Concerning the Spiritual in Art. This week on my quest to find greater inspiration and creativity…
When is a cup of coffee just a cup of coffee, or more appropriately in my case, when is a martini really a Pimm’s 19? This week on the search for inspiration in life, I took on the model of writing and connecting with people who give me energy. Emily Carr had the group of…
This week I followed in Emily Carr’s footsteps and wrote in a journal. And like Emily, I did not do it daily. I let it come in snippets or torrents. A day might pass or two, and when I picked up I wrote about what was unfolding and as she did, stepped out of myself…
“Sketching in the big woods is wonderful. You go, find a space wide enough to sit in and clear enough so that the undergrowth is not drowning you. Then, being elderly, you spread your camp stool and sit and look round. Don’t see much here.” “Wait.” Out comes a cigarette. The mosquitoes back away from…
Here are my tips about New Years Resolutions summarized from my recent interview on The Daily with Karen Elgersma for Shaw TV. How do you empower your resolution? Use the S.M.A.R.T. goal tool. S-specific. What do you want to accomplish? M=measurable. If it can’t be measured and have a date attached to it, how will…
A 365 Day Exploration of What Inspires The Premise One of my favorite books of recent memory is Stumbling on Happiness. Renowned Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert reveals the latest in scientific research in psychology, cognitive neuroscience and several other fields with large words, to help you and I understand why we aren’t happy and what…
So it was my birthday in mid December and my gift to me (because quite frankly at my age, who better knows what I want than I?) was a day built around creativity. At this point in December I know I’m not the only one who feels like their tank is running on fumes. The…
