I am a huge (make that YUGE! Bigly!! lol) advocate of embracing our inner child.  So often we are taught to put away certain parts of ourselves as we get older.  We have to take  life more seriously.(!)  No more grab-assing…no more play, unless it is the sanctioned grown up kind.  In stifling the inner child, we sacrifice an important part of the creative process, of improvisation, and of fully being present in our play like we used to do so easily when we were kids.  This is

The other day, I was listening to an audio program online about Play & Creativity, and during the round-table conversation, these cards were brought up.  It seems this tool for unblocking creative flow was developed by Brian Eno & Peter Schmidt to help promote lateral thinking during the creative process in the studio.  From what it sounds like, you have to play whatever card you are dealt, no matter what.  No skipping or redeals-you have to create a new result using that car

There is a beautiful art to creating intimacy.  Each new relationship is like a fresh canvas, with no two paintings looking alike.  The colors we pick…the strokes…the use of light or dark…  It is a collaboration that creates something unique.  How much each is willing to contribute dictates the depths we reach in that creation. Each time you leave, the painting stops.  The brushes are cleaned, and paints put away.  In the space in between, elaborations or new ideas flicker in