There is so much inspiration every where. In books, movies, overheard conversations.Here are 3 things that I've enjoyed this month.

Connect with your joy, what makes time open up and feel infinite. Go there. Go there more. That is a healing place. A place to renew, nourish, discover, and create.

My usual inclination is dive in without much plan or thought just go. And usually that has worked for me in terms of creative process. But today as the new year approaches I am wondering what if I choose a different route. One with similar trust and gust and delight but one also embedded with a clearer intention.

This morning I return to a few morning practices that some how over the past few months got neglected. One of them is morning pages. I sit down to write. Just get my hand writing and moving across the page. and through this process allow the morning to evolve into what it wants. This is what I tell myself. Dust off.

When I was in art school many years ago, a painter professor came into my studio, looked at my pile of drawings and asked, "What are you after?"
Quickly I said "I'm after not being after."

I give myself Do-ables when I feel like I am spinning empty wheels not really gaining any momentum on any project. A Do-able is something I CAN complete and DO. It's not running the whole marathon, writing a whole book, cleaning out the whole house, it is writing for 10 minutes, maybe even 5, maybe even just opening up a notebook.

This is a practice in sharing 3 things that I’ve read, heard, seen, discovered, however small, which have somehow fed me creatively.

When I spend time in one of my anything goes messy sketchbooks my day always feels better.

There is so much inspiration every where. In books, movies, overheard conversations.
Here are 3 things that I've enjoyed this month.

I made this collage in my morning sketchbook the other day. Something about the suggestion of meaning and subtle absurdity I really like. The combination of drawing and words and imagery and color is saying YES to me.

I have this tiny plastic bucket on my desk.

Dang..it's really hard to do it all.

(this is what i tell myself when i have trouble starting- writing that is)

Chomp Chomp.

Last week I picked this one off my shelf and found myself pausing to touch all the beautiful textured pages. Love it!

Take a moment today, put on music, and let your body do what it wants with crayon marker paint in hand or just a wave to the paper may be enough to reignite that creative swirl inside you.

I'm always finding scraps of paper with notes or drawings in a pile I forgot about. It's like Forest Gump instead of life is a box of chocolates, it's piles....life is a pile of papers....you never know what your gonna get.

Love Maria Popova's definition of creativity on her about page.
"The core ethos behind Brain Pickings is that creativity is a combinatorial force: it’s our ability to tap into our mental pool of resources — knowledge, insight, information, inspiration, and all the fragments populating our minds —

Recently I spent a few hours for some reason researching humming birds. I don't know how it started but once I began looking at pictures and then drawing them I became completely amazed. These creatures are truly WOW material.