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7 Ways To Make Your Day More Magical
Make your day more magical. Try eyebombing, alternative identities, a daily toast, and more. Continue reading
Making Beauty From Bombs
Transmuting horror into beauty by melting bombs into bracelets. Continue reading
Don’t Say It, Draw It
Drawing pulls us out of our habitual patterns of thinking. Like a form of meditation, it takes us to a place in ourselves that is deeper. How can you add some non-threatening sketch time to your life? Continue reading
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16 Ways To Spark Creativity
1. Get out of your head and back to your senses. Touch, smell, and taste. Reach out and feel the texture of bricks as you walk by a building. Forgo utensils to eat with your hands. Notice the sensation of cool … Continue reading
Poetry Diet
On the possibility of living by poetry. Continue reading
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Six Ways Introduce Fine Arts Using The Happy Idiot Method
Enjoyment-based, jump-right-in way we’ve always gotten comfy with fine arts. Continue reading
Dancing Babies & World Peace
We’re born more attuned to music than speech. Yet until this most recent generation and the benefits of music-sharing technology, few of us had the benefits of wide exposure to music beyond our own cultural borders. Building bridges of understanding can start with music. It can start before language, right about the time that first smile emerges. We’re made for music. Lets listen to one another’s. Continue reading
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Singing From the Inside Out
I can’t sneeze in a roomful of my friends without hitting a number of talented singer-songwriters who’d love to make a living through music. (Yes, a metaphorical sneeze.) Yet nearly every gifted artist any of us know has to ignore … Continue reading
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Confession of a Journal Slacker
Beautiful blank journals await my pen. These ornate books with their untouched pages seem too daunting to open let alone abuse with my prose. I write all the time. I scribble ideas on envelopes and the backs of receipts. At … Continue reading
Sock Monsters Take On The World
Okay, maybe not the world, but these guys are trying. I started making sock monsters a few weeks ago in hopes of earning some money for the holidays. The monsters require little in the way of new materials other than … Continue reading
