When Creative Expression Unlocks Self Discovery Self Portrait at the Mic by Linda Joy Walder(2026, acrylic on canvas) About a year ago, I began painting. I have no formal training, no art degree, and no previous experience. I simply envision in my mind what I want to create—and then I create it. For me, this […]
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Musing About Creativity A few weeks ago, my second book , Uphill Towards The Sun was published. Writing and publishing a book such as this that is composed of poems, paintings and prose is a manifestation of the term “labor of love.” After a very long time of carefully preparing and now sharing this
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Quiet Resurrection When you dwell in pain,not knowing where to go,too wounded for revenge or anger, it would seem easierto have your limbs cutfrom your body, thento climb the mountainin front of youwith all your heavy,broken pieces to carry– gradually, gently,in the darknessangels encourage your eyesto look up–where a sky full of starsilluminates twinkles of
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One Creative Resolution for The New YeaR I know — the idea of resolutions may already make you hesitate. Too often they carry the quiet weight of guilt, becoming reminders of what we didn’t follow through on rather than sources of inspiration. But what if we reimagined resolutions not as rigid commitments, but as gentle
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Apple Grove I slept last nightin an apple grovewhere the Mackintosh scented airfilled my resting bodyreclined on a bed of soft grasswith satisfying sweetnesssupporting my peace but before I closed my eyesI was struck by the skyfilled with dazzling starssparking a thought in my mindof an imagined soulyet unidentifiable days laterseemingly randomlywhen I was eatingan
Prioritizing Creativity I doubt there is not a person among us who doesn’t come up with ideas they do not pursue. Thinking of an idea is sometimes the easy part, but bringing the idea to life takes doing, and doing is a whole different matter. When the doing feels like a chore we are bound
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