"What I want is to open up. I want to know what's inside me. I want everybody to open up. I'm like an imbecile with a can-opener in his hand, wondering where to begin - to open up the earth. I know that underneath the mess everything is...
Day-glo pink, gold + tangerine
I like drawing, the feeling of the line that pours out of a wet paintbrush, black and inky. I like day-glo pink against tangerine, with maybe a splash of turquoise, just the right shade. I don't like misspelled words. I like the stars in...
You are beautiful.
This sign sits on the wall next to my bathroom mirror. It's the first thing I see when I get out of the shower in the morning and as I dry off I read those words- You are beautiful. Sometimes a voice in me says, "Ha! Yeah, right." Other...
We collect practices that make us feel alive.
When Laurie + I began mapping out our Opening the Creative Channel retreat last summer, we thought about all the ways we could play and create with the participants. We could do wild writing! collaborative painting! play Storybowl! As we...
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