Follow the Flow

It is better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun."

 -Barbara Kingsolver 

Kingsolver also wrote, "Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you, figure out what you want to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer."

Identify where energy needs release for creativity. Enhance the flow.

Relax the tweaks, unravel snarls. Cut through the nets where the art of wonder tangles.

Flap into fantasies with diligence, zeal, and purpose. It takes effort to progress past the quagmire of frustration's onslaughts. 

Follow the flow with a suggestion from Lao Tzu to enjoy your greatest treasures: simplicity, patience, and compassion.

Imaginate in Place

"A shelter-in-place order has agency over our bodies, but it's not incarcerating our imaginations, our work ethics. In our imaginations, we are free to go anywhere we want. Artists have written through world wars and famine, genocides and natural disasters, though dictators, through drought." -  Joshua Mohr

Joshua Mohr continues, "We write not to find clarity, but to become comfortable in our confusions. Comfortable with the fact that there are no easy answers coming."

Find your creativity today and push through the confusion with words.

Bring in all the senses.

Defy the new world

teased by forced gravity

Let challenges enliven

a dance through sequined night

trusting soles

beyond the parched desires

of fear's circling moths

Seek Freedom

with toe taps near the sea

fired by a hunter's moon

Imaginate in Place.

Word by Word

"Don't shoot the messenger. Edit the message."  
- written on a wall.

Approach your day to notice where words and actions affect others in a positive way. Share a smile, a few sentences of gratitude and a compliment.  Those expressions become your high art.

Write with ferocity today. 

Applaud everything around you. 

Make peace with irritation. 

Use words to burrow into frustration.

Irrigate the soul with positivity. 

Change your attitude and watch how it soothes another.

Count how many judgments you can avoid. What would their opposites sound like?  Write them.

Tell someone to expect an Amazement in an hour.

When a negative rattles toward you, twirl its pace and add a laugh.

Write one-liners and share them.

Win the world's attention word by word.