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July 30, 2018 
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. ~Swedish Proverb 

 

 
Hi Creative Friends,
 
 “Receiving unexpected ‪poetry means
someone is paying attention.” 

~April Mae Monterrosa


The moon moans in monotony,
once again completing her monthly rounds like clockwork,
never expecting anything different from the wax and the wane,
the tides and the time tables.
Every now and then a eclipse, sometimes a half moon
like a Picasso ice cream cone
moves silently through the exhalation of night
Never knowing how much her beauty
Is embraced by the adoring world below.
 
There are musical flowers,
flying liked boxed vibrations in cursive flight
an afternoon buzz,
uncorked imagination,
soaring over the Don’t Fence Me Inn,
crazy notes, a flying landscape,  a carnival,
finding any direction but the one they’re used to,
making unexpected poetry
fill with beauty
but never needing to know why.

 
~Jill Badonsky
 
One of the exercises I designed for my retreats is to instruct everyone to scribble and then play with names and captions for those scribbles. A vast variety of titles lead to unexpected poetry arrives because titles of abstract art are similar to poetic descriptions. Writing and art conspire to find a new world away from the craziness that can sometimes make our ends split, cause constipation and yes, crankiness.
 
A few of favorites from the Taos retreat from which I just returned from were responsible for the poem above. Imagine what these scribbles looked like:
 
afternoon buzz
sunflowers
boxed vibration
don’t fence me Inn
gather
picasso ice cream
vivid jags
fretting without a guitar
arrows
carnival overload
musical flower
flying landscape
where to put this energy
exhaling
crazy notes
cursive flight
 
Even playing in a rough draft with low expectations, my attention falls away from the rut to possibility, soothes my soul with the artfulness of words, escapes the weirdness out there by creating a whimsical world where moons have feelings, a much better playground than melancholia and the media.
 
Simply ask… Where might I find unexpected poetry this week? And then look for evidence.
Or play with the words above in your own poetic play. Pick one or more as a title or combine them and see where they take YOU. Send me what you come up with. I want to see.  ~Jill
 
  
Creativity Out There in the Cyberland:


Polish Christmas Guide ... to help with the heat wave
 
Don't Miss My Grandmother's Lingo30 species in 30 pieces... way cool - in case you missed it last time
 
 
 
 

 

August 6 - December 3, 2018
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Using fleeting multimedia projections, poetry, music, the silly and absurd you will be tricked into effortlessly colliding with your true creative voice without overthinking or scaring it away. Any perfectionistic tendencies, hesitancy, and/or immobilizing self-judgment will be terribly confused and ask to be excused from this workshop.
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  • Learn techniques that make sketching not only easier but a hell of a good time to create.
  • Go home with at least three sketches you’ll want to frame, share with the world, or simply become.
 
February 15- 19, 2019
The Muse in Winter Taos Creativity Retreat in February fills every year.  Start a monthly payment plan now to make it easier.
Writing, art, improv, laughter, a private concert, reconnecting with your creative self, transcending the world and finding kindred spirits, especially geared toward introverts, people who don't THINK they are creative and anyone who wants to be pampered and stay where creative greats have gone for many, many years for creative restoration.

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Look around, there's a poem, or a painting, or a Picasso ice cream cone waiting for you to find it,
Jill Badonsky
 

Jill Badonsky, M.Ed. is head muse of the Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching Certification Training founded in 2004, multimedia artist, yoga teacher, and author/illustrator of four books on creativity.

 
Uses ellipses irresponsibly... . ....... ...
<Seen here with one of her drawings.
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