One of the most difficult things about the emotional journey of a creative is that sometimes there are simply no logical explanations for your experience. (Kind of like dating. Super fun!) Especially if we are prone to placing the value and acceptance of our work in...
The poison of competition.
I remember when I was a brand new mom. Oh man, I was having a devil of a time. Personally, I was splintered in a drastically unrecognizable way. I couldn't recognize any rational thoughts from the irrational kind (which were abundant). Enemies were everywhere. And my...
What is creative vocation?
I define a creative vocation as The Thing you are called to do for 1) your own specific, conscious reasons and 2) the will of creative consciousness, otherwise known as Life itself. Creative vocation is the meeting place of Your Will and Divine Will. It is the...
Step off the battlefield.
As you may know, I have been working as a professional singer and musician for some time, and have many notes from the field to share. Especially on how to weather the various conflicts of heart and mind that come up around our singing. I have sensed for the longest...
When you avoid things.
It's funny to think about how much time and energy we spend each day avoiding something we don't want to do.Sometimes, I spend months and years avoiding something, let alone a few minutes or hours in procrastination, cleaning my house or whatever busy tasks I...
The sacred wound of the voice.
The other day I was in the local library with Adrian, and I discovered the book, The Lost Words, by Robert MacFarlane.It's a poetic-artistic-literary response to the decision of some editor somewhere in the UK to remove a few certain words from a popular children's...