It is always enriching and empowering to make space for inspiration—to nurture our creative practices and allow for intuition as we listen to our bodies and the earth, as we work with dreams or metaphors or whatever the unconscious brings us… Over the last few weeks I’ve been thinking about inspiration and intution in creative […]
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Why writers need to value intuition
Intuition is an extraordinary faculty to be valued and nourished by every writer or artist. However we conceptualise it, the sense of knowing something in the gut, of finding our way through inference or listening to the heart, is ancient and powerful. We do it when we pick up unspoken signals in a room that […]
Why writers need to be open to inspiration
This year in these blogs I’m thinking about what it means to live as kith—with others, with groups, with all of life—and the ways in which the art we create reflects and influences the values we live by and vice versa. To do so requires a level of permeability to the world that can make […]
Why writers need to value their writing to live their values
Each year (running from the season of Imbolc) I try to give my blogs a broad theme to explore an area of how our creative lives and the whole of our live’s journey intersect. I believe any artistic practice can be transformative—writing, sculpture, quilting, composing music, gardening, crafting herbal remedies… The list could go on. […]
Why writers need to be kith
‘Does it enhance connection? In a world in which companies like Monsanto can successfully sue farmers because seed from a neighbouring farm was carried by wind or bees into their crop so they are deemed to have ‘stolen’ Monsanto’s copyrighted property, the whole notion of connection is under serious threat. Cross pollination, a natural connection, […]
Writing from hawthorn, elder, heart
On a bright, cold morning in September I found myself sitting by the Seine in Paris. The trees were still lush and green, but the rustle of leaves in the brisk little wind was a dry rattle like grain in a rain-stick. It had been a long, arid summer. Across France wildfires were still burning, […]