Your Creative Garden

Musing…

Time to listen within for the Muse who plants seeds of creativity within us, in the form of desires, passions to be expressed, dreams, visions of some new endeavor we’d like hands-on experience with. This is like looking through seed catalogues, imagining, dreaming, and envisioning what those little seeds could offer for your pleasure and satisfaction. This IS what we’re after, you know – pleasure, beauty, delight, deep satisfaction in being able to exclaim: “Look what I’ve created!” all to enjoy!

Kate’s turn:

Sometimes we have so many ideas, so many different things we’d love to play with, to try out and see if that’s where we’d like to put more energy into in order to develop that seed. This can be ok when we’re in an experimenting phase – getting a sampler or taste of some creative experiences to learn how much we really love it. Do we want to spend more energy in this creative urging? 

It's Spring!

Musing…
What does this phrase conjure up in you? Spring housecleaning? Gardens? Spring flowers? Days with growing sunlight? Increasing warmth? New growth?
We all have our individual response to the coming of this season. We could view our Muse as a consistent invitation to spring: something new and exciting in terms of creativity/new growth/expansion that lies in wait. Wait for what? …..the right conditions to bring about the full life cycle. The call is for us to take the smallest of an idea, an urge, this tiny seed – and begin to cultivate its growth to full bloom and eventual harvest. But I’ve already breezed through to summer and fall. Let’s focus on what we can do to honor all the spring in our life.

Get Fired Up:
What seeds are inviting you for planting, tending, cultivating this season? Just like a dream, vision and plan for an outdoor garden, listen for the urgings, the desires, the callings you have from within ….the invitations from your Muse to create in ways that are new to you, that will lead you forward into new growth.
DREAM - VISION - PLAN

Expect Your Muse

Musing…

Tick, tick, tick…clock is ticking to get something written. Deadline. Someone once pointed out to me that “deadline” is a “dead line”. Why rush to that? So, slowing down here I will offer you another view. Muses exist outside of time -- or, through time. The muse has been invoked in the works of Virgil, Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, and currently as the name for a British rock band “Muse”. We’ve just spanned the First Century BCE to today. Muses just keep appearing.

Charise’s turn:
I have a collection of poetry I’ve written which I was going to title “The Insistent Muse”. I’ve since scrapped that title because it’s offensive. It portrays my muse as bearing down, demanding. It came from a feeling that I have no control of my creative process; it has me by the arm and shakes me at will.

Call to Creativity

Daily walk at Vista Mar, Panama

Musing…
What if you were walking down the street and saw a ladder poised – balanced just so – above an abandoned building, and it has no reason to be there? It has no use, but someone has put it there with purpose. That someone is Bryant K. Adams, dubbed the “Art Man”, and his plan is to alter the urban landscape of Washington, DC with art. He takes ordinary objects, gives them his own touch with paint and positioning, and then puts them in unusual places, drawing the eye to something unexpected. He’s telling us to notice, take notice, LOOK. Even, or especially, on our daily walk. He’s waking us up to our muse.



Get Fired Up:
Check out what is happening in your community:
∗How is art showing up where you live?
∗Where do you find evidence of “muse at work”?
∗Who is calling your attention to be creative?

A call to creativity is just around the corner…