Offering Requests

Offering Requests

Here in the Midwest, you might say we are known for indirect requests. “The knives are getting dull.” “I sure am getting thirsty.” “The kids need a baby-sitter.” Taken at face value, such examples do well to name the problem, but...
Morning Pages

Morning Pages

I did the thing I said I’d never do. “No, I’m not going back to read all my morning pages!,” I’d say. But the next unspoken thought would be, “Well, maybe some day.” While I still can’t imagine reading all 121+...
Art Tracks

Art Tracks

Out walking in the cold sunshine of nine degrees below zero windchill, I found the squeaking crunch of the snow under each step comforting. Do you ever feel that with each step on your creative path that you are stepping into uncharted territory? Crunch, crunch,...
Clearing Debris

Clearing Debris

How do you know which way to go? How do you make choices, decisions, plans and progress in a way that honors and includes your spiritual nature? First of all, it sure helps to clear whatever is in the way of your own discerning clarity. Mental and emotional debris has...

Telltale Signs

Sailors watch the wind. It’s invisible, of course, so they watch the water.  By seeing the ripples, feeling their skin, listening to the air, the unseen is made apparent. Isn’t it the same when sailing your creative business? We need to see the unseen by looking for...

Horsecart Vision

You’ve heard it before. Especially if you are a dreamer, a visionary, a clearly creative person, your ideas for the future can be met with wet-blanket pragmatism. “Don’t put the cart before the horse,” we’re told. Well, I think those naysayers are just hearing us...