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Woman painting the word create on a wall - "I want to be creative"

“I WANT TO BE CREATIVE”: What does that really mean?

Max Reif·October 14, 2016
A couple of days ago, I wrote a short poem with the title “I Want to Be Creative.” So many...
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Freight train moving alongside river - Poems by Emma Sedlak

POEMS BY EMMA SEDLAK: Source, Doig, Dreams About Trains, Not Written, Before September, Letter to My Husband

Contributor·May 15, 2016
Source One morning you may wake to find our molecules bonding: shared memories that make no sense when split apart....
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CLEVER QUOTES: 25 eloquently phrased, thought-provoking quotes

Jelin Philip·March 4, 2016
When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on. – Theodore Roosevelt I like my relationships...
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POEMS BY MAX REIF: Art, Driven to Abstraction

Max Reif·December 11, 2015
Art Art was a gift sent to the bottom of a pit, a pit like Joseph’s. It was survival, it...
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MEISTER ECKHART: Interview with Matthew Fox on the man for all spiritual seasons

Kiva Bottero·September 20, 2015
“The person who understands what I have to say about justice understands everything I have to say.” That’s a line...
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CREATIVITY AND JOURNALING: Tools to enhance your journaling practice

Anjali Mani·May 21, 2015
I’ve used journaling to write, to feel, to pray, to understand, to love. What I also love equally is the...
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POEMS : Art Class, A Time for Growth, Animation, Sojourn, Blues

Catina Noble·July 5, 2014
Art Class I joined to explore creative ways to use my tool box of methods when overwhelmed with stress and...
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MAKING MARKS: Open your imagination’s floodgates with “stream drawing”

Contributor·June 19, 2014
The following is an excerpt from Making Marks by Elaine Clayton. Reframing: A new way to look at drawing Drawing is a pathway...
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With so many pagodas in Bhaktapur this one got converted into a restaurant

CITY OF CULTURE: Bhaktapur, a jewel in Nepal’s Kathmandu valley

Kiva Bottero·April 2, 2014
Kathmandu stores a number of jewels within the folds of its Himalayan foothills. One of the brightest among them is...
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ART AND THE CREATIVE UNCONSCIOUS: Four insightful essays on creativity [book review]

Max Reif·February 11, 2014
ART AND THE CREATIVE UNCONSCIOUS:Four insightful essays on creativity Erich Neumann [Princeton University Press, 234 pages] This is not a...
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AVANT-GARDE MEDITATIONS: Exploring meditative vibrations with Brice Salek

Erica Roberts·September 13, 2013
Mid-August marked the public release of innovative multimedia artist Brice Salek’s latest project, “Avant-Garde Meditations,” The project consists of eight...
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ART AND EMOTION: Must the two be unified?

Erica Roberts·August 30, 2013
How emotionally involved should artists be in their work? And what level of emotional involvement is ideal? Denis Diderot, a well-known...
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A FRESH CANVAS: Painting a new life

Wanda Monague·May 6, 2013
When inspired, an artist will follow through with a few simple, yet predictable actions. If he or she is like...
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THE LIFE YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN: A story by Max Reif

Max Reif·November 18, 2012
This story appears in the book Toward an Interior Sun: Awakening by a Master, and the Difficult Journey toward Discipleship....
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Waiting for trains by Mathew Merrett

FINDING BEAUTY IN DISINTEGRATION: An interview with photographer Mathew Merrett

CathLopes·November 7, 2012
Photographers have a unique way of making us see the world differently. Mathew Merrett is no exception. For the last...
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POEMS by RICHARD SHIERS: Grey, grey skies, Weightless, Veiled

Contributing Writer·September 18, 2012
Even the December sky was bright then you know, the old times or was it a month ago? Either way...
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PROSE AND POEM : Own me, Making lists

Jane Olivier·September 1, 2012
Oh, enticing world! Colour, composition, balance and voice hold the audience of undertones captive. Covers pulled loose expose Life’s naked enchantresses carrying works by the artist of Tomorrows. Creations of subtle beauty open their allure, calling wildness leaning against walls of indifference to the performance. Collector’s value decides the price, and skilled auctioneers wielding gavels tuned to the buyer’s heartstrings move these creations to their fortunate owners. The only voice in the room is that of the artist, the only sound the report of the world’s muzzled gavel...
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POEMS BY COREY MESLER: Art and Love, Morning Path, We are the River

Contributing Writer·June 19, 2012
Sometimes on Parnassus the light is so weak I cannot read the leaves of my tea nor the sticky pages...
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ART AND WELLNESS: Creating art for self-expression and healing

Contributing Writer·April 15, 2012
From finger-painting to intricate landscape portraits, Lady Gaga to Chopin, art provokes spiritual wellness. Even before hospitals hired musicians to perform for traumatized veterans during the...
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Jenny Holzer's truism art

TRUISM ART: Jenny Holzer’s conceptual art questions generally accepted truths

Contributing Writer·April 14, 2012
"Protect me from what I want.” A pithy, almost reactionary statement for our time, acknowledging a certain overindulgence, an excess. What we want is simply too much. Such are the messages...
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Sleep Anywhere - Eleanor Leonne Bennett

PHOTOS by Eleanor Leonne Bennett

Contributing Writer·February 26, 2012
A selection of photography by Eleanor Leonne Bennett, a 15 year old award-winning photographer and artist who has won first place with National Geographic...
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SANA MUSASAMA: Ceramic Artist

Contributing Writer·November 20, 2011
The Unknown/The Unnamed, Sana Musasama’s provocative exhibition of ceramic sculptures—powerful homage to the victims of humankind’s unspeakable inhumanity to one another...
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YARNBOMB! Beautifying public space through knitting

Contributing Writer·January 17, 2010
Over, under, through, we settle into a rhythm. Our click-click-clicking becomes a trancelike song. For perhaps half an hour we set about marking our territory, focused on one goal. As a police...
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GREEN ART: Environmentally conscious artists create green art

Contributing Writer·June 26, 2008
Art is a powerful medium used for social commentary. Environmentalism is a theme duly present in this realm of critique, but when...
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