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Tag Archives: creativity
Cue the Mending Basket
Every actor must know their cues, which means we all do if we believe as Shakespeare did… All the world’s a stage, all the men and women merely players. Today my cue is a paean to the Mending Basket, also … Continue reading
How an Artist is Like a Tree: Paul Klee on Creativity
By Paul Klee – Swiss-born German artist (1879-1940) The artist has studied this world of variety and has, we may suppose, unobtrusively found his way in it. His sense of direction has brought order into the passing stream of image … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, art and feeling, creativity, drawing trees, expression, Paul Klee
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What Drawing Does
While I’ve heard people say, “Oh, I can’t draw to save my life,” or, “I can’t even draw a straight line,” I’ve never heard anyone say, “I can’t connect things with each other,” because of course we do, all the time, albeit unconsciously. Continue reading
The Art of Distilling
I was in Prague, “the Magical City,” or because it’s rare that I attend a live concert, I seemed to be hearing on another level, analyzing my enjoyment in a different way, having a different insight into what I was hearing through this filter of music. Continue reading
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Tagged Art, art and alignment, beauty, creativity, distilling sound, energy, feeling, music, Prague, St. Giles Church, the energy field
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The Nancy Who Drew Buildings*
I got into rendering buildings because one night I drew a candleholder. Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, Art, Brooklyn buildings, creativity, drawing, drawing buildings, memoir, Park Slope, renderings
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Notes on a Sequel
Life can strip you of everything. What it cannot do is take away your inner being. For that is yours and yours alone. Continue reading
Posted in ART, Art of the Path, Uncategorized
Tagged Art, creativity, drawings, inner life, Nancy Wait, non-fiction, the brush and the pen, the nancy who drew, the way home, truth, writing
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She Will Have Music
I pictured my fingers and toes ringing with the sound of patterned ironwork as if it was a kind of sheet music. Continue reading
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Tagged Art, creativity, drawings, energy, ironwork fences, vibrations, visual music
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Does the World Need More Paintings?
Does the World Need More Paintings? No. But it might need yours…
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Posted in ART, Art of the Path
Tagged Art, art and alignment, art and healing, creativity, dreams, higher self, inner knowledge, Louise Oliver, memory, painting, perception, Rainbow Light Trust, soul awareness, Spirituality
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Doorways of the Past
The last doorway I went in search of was nowhere to be found. St. Mary Abbot’s Hospital. How could an entire hospital disappear? I’d only spent a week there back in 1976, but it was such a memorable week that I wanted to go back and see the place. Continue reading
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