This is a speech by the author Elizabeth Gilbert on creativity and artistic endeavors.  In it she espouses a return to the ancient mystical or metaphysical conceptions of inspiration.  This clip is a must see for anyone of a creative or artistic nature, and highly recommended for anyone with any spiritual or mystical leanings as well.

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Winter has settled in with short cold days, chilling winds, and long dark evenings. It might be the coccooning this brings, but regardless of the source I've been feeling more creative recently ( Read more... )

A strange energy seemed to hold me last night. Perhaps it was the creativity aroused by the trip Kel and I made to the craft store early in the evening, or the artistry we shared later, sitting on the livingroom floor together, working out the prototypes of the mushroom hairsticks we've been collaborating on. It was a wonderful, exciting, and ( Read more... )

The following was copied from the "Daydreaming on Paper" website by Dawn R. Vinson.  Her entire site about journaling was educational and inspiring, and this is just a bit of it.

( 101 Reason to Keep a Journal )

I am not sure what I was expecting, but I was rather disappointed to find them completely human. After all, I'd driven to Bloomington just to rub elbows with these three book authors being hosted by the pagan bookstore there. I guess it's easy to idealize such "celebrities" as writers who have strings of interesting and successful books. What ( Read more... )