Follow Your Creative Spirit
"Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow..."—Kurt Vonnegut There is little in life that doesn't require creativity. Even if we…
"Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow..."—Kurt Vonnegut There is little in life that doesn't require creativity. Even if we…
Plots in fiction often consist of a character wanting something and being continually hindered. Without these obstacles, roadblocks, twists, and turns, there wouldn’t be a story. Our lives unfold in…
As each of us moves along our life path, at some point, we realize that our happiness depends not only on our own success and well-being but on the effect…
Sometimes it feels as if things will never change. This often happens when we are in a situation, such as now during the pandemic, in which our limits of endurance…
In The Cloud of Unknowing, a spiritual ‘guidebook’ by an anonymous author written in the 14th century, it states that “we grow by delays.” Many of us want answers to…
Dear Friends, In this strange and trying period, each of us is dealing with our own situation, our own set of circumstances, and our own specific challenges. There are no…
There’s a song called Celluloid Heroes by the Kinks, one of the most influential rock groups of the 1960s and early 70s. They wrote so many great songs. But this one…
September is around the corner, and many of us consider it the beginning of a new phase. This is when school starts again, the weather changes--at least where I live--…
Do you ever read the news and feel despair? I do. There is so much trouble in the world. Yet we still have to live our lives and follow our…
Having goals is essential. Most people have a natural desire to accomplish things and use their talents and abilities to find fulfillment, and make a contribution, and goals give us…