Lelia
Mars as Imaginary Friend and Creative Muse
In an interview in The Guardian, Maxine Hong Kingston describes a male alter ego from her memoir I Love a Broad Margin to My Life....
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Lelia
Aug 17, 20213 min read
Keri Smith, Play and Antidotes to the Wasteland
I’ve been thinking about Keri Smith’s Wreck This Journal as a way to pay attention and engage with my imaginarium but it occurred to me...
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Aug 12, 20212 min read
Dominique Christina, the 4th House and Toni Morrison
I loved Dominique Christina’s This is Woman’s Work. It’s not a scholarly work on archetypes, it’s her lived experience of these...
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Aug 11, 20213 min read
Creativity, Motherhood and Self-Remembering
I'm inspired by the boundaries women set to protect their creativity and how often women persevere in being creative even if they only...
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Aug 9, 20212 min read
The Empress Tarot Card, Roses and Life Force Energy
I pulled the Empress card in tarot today and thought of the Dylan Thomas line “the force that through the green fuse drives the flower...
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Aug 7, 20214 min read
Mystics, Creativity and the Spiritual Path
I’ve been trying to read Carol Lee Flinders’ book Enduring Grace and am having to confront my repugnance for asceticism. The first female...
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Aug 5, 20212 min read
Scrapjournaling and Soul Exploration
Keri Smith has a great exercise in Living Out Loud in which you get a box and start a clipping file of anything that interests you. After...
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Jul 28, 20212 min read
Food Writers, Detectives and Soul Guides
I think of MFK Fisher as a food writer, but last night as I cozied up to Last House and a piece of pie (MFK Fisher would probably not...
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Feb 17, 20213 min read
All Bad Art is Sincere
Oscar Wilde wrote "All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling." Harold Bloom paraphrased Wilde's idea as "all bad poetry is sincere."...
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Feb 3, 20213 min read
Chase Jarvis's Creative Calling and the 11th house
"Most of us have a gap in our lives between where we find ourselves and the life we actually want to be living. It's time for you to look...
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Feb 1, 20213 min read
Creativity: A Commonplace Book
“... art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees…” Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit “Everything is raw...
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Jan 16, 20211 min read
"Storytelling Is Good for Your Health:" A Commonplace*
I see her walking on a path through a pathless forest or a maze, a labyrinth. As she walks, she spins and the fine threads fall behind...
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Aug 4, 20201 min read
Snibblets
I love remnants and snippets, found objects and things that fall by the wayside. And I think it's really fun to put them together and see...
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Aug 4, 20201 min read
What 15 Minutes Can Do
I've been angry at my garden this summer. Hot, humid weather, weeds, perfectionism and overwhelm have led to resentment, resistance and...
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Jul 24, 20201 min read
Wobbly Mandala Day
A Jill-Badonsky-inspired wobbly mandala in honor of Jill's July 26 birthday. "Trusting the process leads to peace and contentment....
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Jul 12, 20201 min read
Noticing Leads to Wondering
I'm a reluctant gardener. Sometimes I get cranky at the work it requires. But once I get outside and start noticing what I'm seeing, what...
Lelia
Jul 12, 20202 min read
Buckminster Fuller and the Dymaxion Chronofile
Happy birthday to Buckminster Fuller, born July 12, 1895. He was a man of seemingly uninhibited uniqueness, to use a Jill Badonsky...
Lelia
Jun 26, 20201 min read
Making Bad Art
I'm taking pleasure in Sol Lewitt's advice, which comes to me via Austin Kleon. The blind contour self-portrait to the right is one of...
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Apr 21, 20201 min read
Zine-spiration
As noted in a previous post, I love to make zines. Often I fill them with inspirational tidbits that I clip from magazines. Here's one...
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Apr 14, 20201 min read
Zines are fun to make
I love me a zine. They're fun to make, fun to give away, and a great way to spend time while social distancing.
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