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Unblock Your Creative Power With The Artist’s Way!

If you are not a professional artist, you may look at creativity as a luxury. It is not. Creativity is a necessity. Everyone on the planet is a professional creative being of some sort. All of life is a creative activity. Every decision, every movement, every way you...

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Are You Looking For A Magic Pill?

I used to hunt down short cuts the way that primitive man hunted food, with a vengeance.  Every short cut I found and took wound up costing me more time, more effort and sometimes even loads of money. Occasionally I have a potential client ask me to "create" love or...

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The Essence Of All Beautiful Art!

  While this is not immediately obvious because lots of us are accoustomed to a way of thinking of art as ideas or even as activism, the very process of making all art- especially the most becautiful- involves channeling something larger than us. When that is...

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Fresh Orange Inspiration & Fabulous Fall !

(Ingersted) I don't know about you but the Back-To-School vibe has swept me up and is leading me to revamp, re-design, go to bed early and wake up with a journal at the crack of dawn. Recently over tea with a friend I divulged my recent secret obsession with orange as...

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Feng Shui Tips For Expanding Your Life!

Life moves quickly these days.  Things can grow super-fast.  Things can also gradually but rapidly get mucked up without you noticing.  All this stuff carries on and we don't notice it until suddenly we are stopped in our tracks and feel we have become overwhelmed. If...

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Naturally Radiant, Earthy And Elemental Decor !

(via) Earthy.  That word has such undertones of unsophisticated and today it is time to prove that Earth is just as sexy, compelling and radiant as the manufactured high gloss.  Whether it is wearing less makeup, stripping down your wardrobe to have less flash or...

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Decisive Moments Are The Most Exhilarating!

(via) The decisive moment:  You wake up knowing that things are just not the way they should be.  Things feel wrong,  You know you need to do something, but you aren't quite sure what to do. Whether it is your job, your relationship, the city where you live, your...

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Instagramming A New Chapter In Bloom!

This was my birthday week (being born on 9/11 has added a real depth of introspection to my celebration) and it was a decisive time... with a whole new chapter in bloom! How incredible is it to see a tree that is blooming purple flowers while its leaves turn autumn...

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