Owning Pink Bloggers

Every time you pass a mirror, smile and see what happens.

Owning Creativity

Lone Morch's picture

Better Than Therapy: When Creativity & Life Become One

If I should call this summer anything I'd be the summer of deep digging and random acts of sobbing. 

I've just completed the third draft my memoir, From Kailas to Kali. It's a story about my climbing inner and outer mountains, quite literally facing demons while searching for truth and personal power. It's the classic heroine's journey, of seeking it in all the wrong places and outside of self, but ultimately having to find it closer to home, through the body and wounds, and getting really intimate and honest with self in the underworld. There I happen to meet the great goddess Kali… and if you're familiar with her, you'll know that she cuts away any ego, attachment, fear and illusion that stands in the way of truth and freedom. My 'awakening' took a journey to the world's most sacred mountain in Tibet, a ruined marriage in San Francisco, and a rude awakening by the goddess who helped tear off my masks, drive me out of hiding and into true intimacy with my own sovereignty. Weeew!

Read More...
Lauren Nagel's picture

What Is Your Writing Ritual? 10 Tips On Connecting With Your Creative Process

Finished products sure do get a lot of attention, right? We’re not usually attending art shows of half-completed paintings or reading published work that stops midsentence. We don’t hear songs on the radio that trail off after the first verse, the vocalist pausing to say, “There’s going to be a rockin’ chorus here!” Finished products are fabulous and have an energy all their own – but man, do I dig the process. I absolutely love talking to artists about the journey – how they do what they do. That sculpture is beautiful, but how the heck did you get to that from a clump of clay?

Read More...
Matthew Sloane's picture

Creativity In Daily Living

Last night, as I was making a bedtime snack of warm milk with a bunch of spices, I felt a dash of creativity run through my veins. I've made this snack many times, yet somehow, simply the way that I moved through the kitchen, picking up the cardamom and sprinkling it into the pot felt like a creative act.

What was that?

Read More...
Guest Author's picture

Put The Paintbrush Down: Pushing The Joy Out Of Creativity

Happy Happy Saturday Posse Party, all! When browsing through our community blog posts, I came across this one by Tracy Swartz and fell in love. Tracy is a vibrant bubble of color and creativity within the community. I know that her beauty and energy radiates of the page here as well. -- Megan Monique

Read More...
Megan Monique Harner's picture

How To Be Alone

Some how, some way this incredibly inspiring video landed in my hands. I wanted to post it here in the Fun 'N' Games section to encourage you all (and myself) to be creative with our alone time. To create our own definitions of what lonely, success or creativity looks like to us. I hope you enjoy this wonderful piece of art.

Read More...
Matthew Sloane's picture

The Judge of Creativity

My judge speaks to me all the time. He tells me what I can and can't do. We spoke recently about my creative pursuit of writing and illustrating a comic book about my personal growth experience. Here's how our conversation went…

Read More...
Matthew Sloane's picture

Your Creative Practice: Inspiration or Discipline?

Sometimes, I am drawn to drawing, welcomed to writing. It's as if I can't help it — I am being called to get that stuff out that's in me, or coming through me.
This feels like inspiration.

Other times, I'm facing creative expression like it's a must. It's my duty. I HAVE to do it because I made a pact with myself. Or else!
This feels like discipline.

Read More...
Suzanne Bouffard's picture

Taking Breaks to Take in Inspiration

In my last post, I wrote about the power of creating for its own sake and for our own selves, even if what we create isn’t “good” as defined by conventional standards. Here I want to talk about something that may seem like a paradox but isn’t: the power of not creating, of taking in instead of putting out.

Read More...
Syndicate content

Follow Us

What affirmation will you take on this fall?