I woke up this morning to the words, “These are the first birds I’ve drawn since I was 10 years old and I’m 67” and I saw a page full of Silvereyes and Wrens and
Here’s something you are no doubt already aware of: It’s easy not to be creative. It’s easy to not to write or draw or do the thing that you are called to do. We are
I’m a little late this morning because I’ve made it my mission to draw a bird for you every day, and I went off piste as they might say. I got flamboyant in the evening
On the weekend, I took the littlest of my small ones to the Ecosanctuary near us for hot chocolate, but my ulterior motive of course was to admire all the birds. Right near the entrance
A little while back, I began creating what I came to call my Book of Allies, a ritual magicked into existence to sustain me through a difficult time. The practice works like this: each morning
Can we sit down for a moment and talk about expiration dates? Not the ones that we find on packets at the back of the fridge, but the ones we have invisibly tattooed on the
There’s an apple tree outside my office window that looks a little like the Magic Faraway Tree, a book I was obsessed with in my Enid Blyton phase. She’s not especially beautiful (although in their
You are galloping along, and you have this vision in your mind, and it all seems wonderful, perfect. This is exciting. You can see it, you know? What a brilliant idea, you think to yourself.
Whether something feels inspiring or intimidating all depends on context. Not the outside kind of context- the context of your insides. If you arrive with glitter in your blood and feet firmly connected to the
Let me talk about two things that happened yesterday which I will classify as ‘Most Important Moments’. Most Important Moment Number #1 was when I was sitting at the kitchen table with my coffee and
We are only ever a footstep away from chaos. We spend so much time trying to smooth our edges, tying up loose ends as though life were a shoelace forever coming undone, stitching our seams
If you are involved in a creative project of any sort- one that requires you to show up and sustain (we are doing this in Creating Wild at the moment), then you need to pay
I read a quote recently that I keep saying to myself on repeat, so I’m going to share it here: “You probably aren’t a good enough writer to write so slowly. You’ll only learn by
I’ve been dithering around this morning, thinking about what to write to you and convincing myself that I have nothing interesting to say. This is, indeed, a curiosity to me because I am a person
I like to think of creativity as the ability to find new and unique solutions to problems, or innovative ways to express a story that’s already been told. When I think of creativity this way,
We don’t often think of creative practices as movement in the same way we do other activities that mobilise the body but they absolutely are. Taking your pen to the page to write or draw,
I woke up this morning to so much loveliness, to attempt to capture it in words is like blowing a dandelion clock into the breeze and doing your best to collect all the pieces back
For most of my life, I’ve understood myself as a wordy person and then when I also realized I was a drawing person too, a few things were revealed to me that putting words down