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I just got back from a big old pile of muddled thinking.  I was confused, lost, searching and honestly, a little scared.  It took a few things to get me out of that pile of grey stuff; a small internal voice, an irritated external voice and my own creativity.  It got me thinking about the …

Welcome to Season 2 of Creative and Curious! Today, I explore how spacious stillness helped bring awareness to my creative barriers as I approached building a gingerbread house. I explore how those barriers hinder me in life and in other creative projects.  Then I offer means for how to gently remove them. Because I want …

I’m on vacation, camping, getting dirty, rock climbing, hiking, playing and bathing in lakes and rivers.  It’s amazing.  Life feels like its somewhat normal.  You should do it too 😉  

There are days when I have thought that the last three or four weeks have been harder than the first weeks of this pandemic.  Even as we reopen, pandemics and protests and the growing realization that this summer won’t be what I thought it was, has really taken a toll and my and my family’s …

This is another episode I recorded before the world ended and began again with a pandemic and protests.  As I find myself reflecting now more and ever in this unprecedented time, I realize that looking back is a good step is to re-vision my manifesto into the future within this new and unfolding context.  In …

I think we should be listening to black leaders telling their history and their experience.  I think we should be curious about it and directing our attention to them, especially now.  Make them center right now.  They have a lot of important, meaningful, uncomfortable points to make about America.  They are points, that if we …

What would it be like if we truly put what we value first?  Would it change the way we think about money and each other? Instead of measuring what we have and hoard, can we measure what we value by how we invest in it?  In this episode, I explore the evolution of my thinking …

Actually, it’s a bit of a mystery to me.  I haven’t thought of myself as a collector until recently.  Of course, I’m not just a maker and artist, I’ve always collected other people’s art for very meaningful reasons.  Art speaks an emotional language and  it marks major phases for me. The art I collect are …

The conversation about how this pandemic will change us will continue for awhile.  Personally, in a couple months, I’ve experienced profound shifts in my relationship with time, mindset, art, the artist as well as my self-worth.  At a baseline these shifts have taken me beyond what I thought was possible for me.  I’ve found growth …

Relationships are complicated.  Aren’t they?  I find one of the greatest challenges is maintaining and nourishing the relationships I hold dear while doing all the other things.  Not to mention my desire to have even better relationships.  This podcast is all about some of the things I’ve been thinking about in this complicated process of …