My best friend’s sister asked me to perform at her music/spoken word/literary series scheduled for this summer. She and her husband own this really cool spot called Canvas. I haven’t been doing any spoken word and she told me it can be any literary form. I said, “yes” and proceeded to jump into my, “I [...]

Michele Meiche, meditation teacher, author, self-professed techie has created a wonderful online magazine titled,Conscious Inspired Living: An Interactive Magazine that Speaks to Your Soul. The theme of the premiere issue is, How to Remain Inspired in Times of Uncertainty. I contributed two pieces to this issue: there is a short written piece by me and [...]

I enjoyed writing about the creative process of Walter Russell in my previous post but it felt abstract to me. I know what he describes in terms of finding creative inspiration is true but could not find any examples from my own life. His experiences seemed special, different, super natural even. It wasn’t until I [...]

Malcolm Gladwell stated it takes 10,000 hours of practice to have mastery of a skill. Muscle memory, mental and emotional habits of the skill all require development. I wondered how it was possible for anyone to sustain a focus of 10,000 hours upon any subject and why. I will pursue that line of thought in [...]

I wrote this working definition of creativity in my last post: Creativity is the movement, because of inspiration, from where I am in thought and time/space to a previously unknown place. Basically it is when we get an idea which is so moving we are forced to act on it and taken to a new [...]

I have to put my two-cents in the conversation about the definition of creativity. I spend a lot of time either studying or thinking about creativity but realized I didn’t have a definition of it. I create. So I asked myself, “What is creativity?” Creativity is the movement, because of inspiration, from where I am [...]