The Color of Where and the November See

November Sea by Carol Thompson

The Sea

Hi There,
 
There are a few spots open for the complimentary call this evening on Body Blissmas and a Happy New Rear 5pm pacific, 8 pm eastern. This is not a promotion for a program. It's a call to share how Kaizen-Muse Creativity Tools can be applied to taking care of your body and your body image. Sign-up here
 
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Don't you love how poetry, prose, art, music, and movement can easily break us out of the disturbing, the tired, and the mundane?  
 
Creativity provides the colors, sounds and sights of where the soul can be restored. It offers a place where anything can happen.. not just the predictable, the required, the protocol, the status quo. It gives us a respite from the overwhelming, the overused, and the disturbing
 
The Muse Flash this month is devoted to unique, liberating possibilities provided when a wave of creativity is allowed to baptize us with the jewels of the see. See this poem from e.e. cummings:
 
"maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to the beach (to play one day)
and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles, and
millie befriended a stranded star
who's rays five languid fingers were;
and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles: and
may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea.”
 
Amidst a dark lingering life tempest poems steer me in the direction of tributaries that flow to sunnier scenarios - s curves to sane shores.
 
 
 
Sometimes Soggy and Sometimes Seeworthy,
Jill Badonsky
Creative Liberation Fighter
 

Here..click here to make some of your own poetry and float away from the mundane.

Click on the Page Above to Sea How You Can Discover Some Poetry From this Wonderful Altered Books Site

Where Can You Find Poetry?

I heard your inner poet ask you to write a poem. Time it, take just 5 minutes. Use these words and phrases and more if you need:
 
bathroom light,  cold winter morn, eavesdrop, window pane, the ones you try to keep hidden, unable, underneath, carefully, in front of, reach, belong, understand, solid, watch in amazement, breathe, heart beat.
The Idea:
Cut the bindings off of books found at a used book store. Find poems in the pages by the process of obliteration. Put pages in the mail and send them all around the world. Lather, rinse, repeat.
This site is a chronicle of a very specific set of collaborations between the artists listed below working on the titles listed below.
 

Click here for the Aha-phrodite Interview by Creatvity-Portal's Molly Childers

Click on the Cards for more Information

Modern Day Muse Cards Can Now be Purchased

Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach Jill Bryan's Blog... with some Audacity.

 
 The wonderful artist, Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach, and entrepreneur Sally Evans interviewing Jill Badonsky (that would be me).

The Awe-manac makes a great holiday gift. If you order, send me the Amazon or B&N receipt and I'll send a Modern Day Muse Card and the reading that goes with it.

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Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching Tip

Do not underestimate the power of a nurturing bath (or shower) to the bubbling up of ideas.
 
Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach, Laura Hegfield's Lessons Learned Through the Magic of Blowing Bubbles.
 
Enveloping Yourself in a Bath of Laughter is also a Way to Sail into Calm Sees:
“When mom found my diaphragm, I told her it was a bathing cap for my cat.”  ~Liz Winston
 
 
When my thoughts are tormenting me, replaying my distorted perceptions or haunting me with regrets from the past, I encapsulate an image that represents that thought or thoughts in a bubble and touch it lightly so it floats away. Try it.
 
 
 
Here's a Draw a Pig Personality Test (thanks Dale)
 
Gratitude to All of You Always,
Jill
 

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The Sea

Where Can You Find Poetry?

Modern Day Muse Cards Can Now be Purchased

Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching Tip

Schedule of Events
November 12, 2009 5pm pacific, 8 pm eastern
Free Teleconference: Body Blissmas and a Happy New Rear - Find out what Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching is and how it applies to the energy we need from our bodies for creativity. Sign-up.
 
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Wrapping Your Experience in Words
Writing Workshop
  • 5pm - 6:15 pm Pacific time
    6 - 7:15 pm Mountain Time
    7 - 8:15 pm Central
    8 - 9:15 pm Eastern
  • Teleconference - from the comfort of your couch
We will use journal writing, creative prose, and stream of consciousness prompts to capture life moments with writing uniquely flavored with creativity, humor, and poignancy. The inspiration of authors and the tricks of Muses to make writing essays or personal stories easy. Exalt memories, passions, and points of view to writing and expression. Free adjectives to all who sign up.
Long distance charges apply only according to your plan. Sign-up by scrolling to the event here. If you've been attending a lot of the free calls, consider supporting The Muse is IN efforts with this low-cost call.
 
January and/or July 2011 (yes, that's the year after next!): Jill and Mabel's Creative Retreat in Taos, New Mexico! Planning this far ahead creates doable payment plans. Only a few places still open. Click here for more information.

Free Teleconferences Monthly. Watch for them in the Muse Flash.
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Celebrate Daily Awe:
Today: November 12 and this week
 
Awe-servances
Happy Birthday to:
Auguste Rodin,1840, artist, most famous as a sculptor.
Edvard Munch, 1863, symbolist painter, printmaker, forerunner of Expressionistic art.
Shallow Persons Awareness Week - a week to acknowledge and embrace your shallowness.
 
Aha-phrodisiacs  
Auguste Rodin said “I invent nothing, I rediscover.” Rediscover an idea in poetry or prose.  Start with … “Here it is again …”
Or rediscover something you've started and keep going.

As with many of his works, Munch painted several versions of The Scream. Choose a subject and doodle, collage, draw or paint several versions of it.
 
Or take several versions of a bath.
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