by Ellen Clarke | Jan 15, 2018 | Creativity
Photo by Skye Studios on Unsplash Well, I committed to writing a blog post every damedy day this year, planned out a month at a time. You learn a lot about it and yourself on the days you’re not into it. I started this 12 hours ago. It’s amazing! Sometimes...
by Ellen Clarke | Jan 14, 2018 | Creativity
Photo by Matthew Hamilton on Unsplash Things have felt kind of screwy the past couple of years. Mostly out of our direct control, on a global scale. Anxiety, depression, anger – what else? – comes from being or feeling unable to control...
by Ellen Clarke | Jan 13, 2018 | Creativity
Photo by Cristina Gottardi on Unsplash Today’s post will be short. You can always tell how my day’s been when my daily blog post doesn’t appear until nighttime! I always intend to publish it before the sun comes up…..but….....
by Ellen Clarke | Jan 12, 2018 | Creativity
Photo by Senjuti Kundu on Unsplash Remember when you were a kid? Before stuff got real, and the only stress you felt was in trying to be just good enough to not incur your parents’ loving wrath? Back then we didn’t worry too much about how artistic our...
by Ellen Clarke | Jan 11, 2018 | Creativity
Photo by Edwin Andrade on Unsplash Yesterday when I was driving to the music school, I was thinking about how art and anything else we come up with that qualifies as self-expression is rarely about ourselves, as long as we don’t keep it private. I’m lucky...
by Ellen Clarke | Jan 10, 2018 | Creativity, Entrepreneur
Let’s hear it for people who support creative arts every day. Like your local art supply store, where you run in for pencils, and get great advice on the best type of paper for your work, or meet a customer who becomes your student. And musical instrument...
by Ellen Clarke | Jan 9, 2018 | Creativity
Producing creative stuff should be fun. That’s why you did it in the first place, right? Kids are the masters of fun and creative activities; then life gets serious and we shelve it. But technology makes creative play legit again! Woohoo! Technology is...
by Ellen Clarke | Jan 8, 2018 | Creativity
Photo by Bianca Isofache on Unsplash One of the most ambivalent things about creative work is sending a part of yourself out into the world. I’ve had the honor of having many of my haiku published, and I’m about the worst one when it comes...
by Ellen Clarke | Jan 7, 2018 | Creativity
Teaching involves so many forms and goals. Classroom, tutoring, online, videos…….to learn a new skill, reach a goal, prepare school children for the future, to climb over a hurdle. Is it creative? Consider any subject in a classroom, for example; there are...
by Ellen Clarke | Jan 6, 2018 | Creativity
Writing is about the easiest form of creativity to engage in. You can write by hand, on computer, even dictation can translate into print. Thoughts in the brain follow a path through to the hand and onto paper. It’s a proven psychologically beneficial process...
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