Maybe artists are instinctively drawn to a creative process? The topic of “Process” has been on my mind a lot lately. Recently while watching a video on illustrative design the instructor said something which stuck with me for days. “It is said that practice makes perfect. I disagree. If your creative process is flawed then…
I like to consider myself a positive person, but I have to admit that I arrived at my daughters’ water polo practice yesterday afternoon feeling more than a little frazzled, as the challenges of the day and a scheduling nightmare looming for this weekend had begun to take their toll. As I was ruminating over…
Cheering for Oneness The theme of the month at Center for Spiritual Living, Capistrano Valley is Upcycling. For this past Sunday, “Trash Talk” was the topic of Dr. Heather Clark’s message. In rivalries, taunting others with “Trash talk” can have a smidge of truth in a mindset. If we are in a way of thinking…
I love stumbling around youtube, you are apt to find all kinds of goodies there, I enjoyed this and wanted to share it with you. From Wikipedia “In the mid-1940s, Dr. Joseph Murphy moved to Los Angeles, where he met Ernest Holmes and was ordained into Religious Science in 1946, He moved his ministry to Laguna Hills, California.…
A Dog’s Life I’ve always been blessed to have dogs in my life. I often say I’d like to come back in my next life as my dog. After having spent the last 44 years of my life with dogs I’ve come to believe one of the many reasons dogs were meant to be human…
Recently I was asked to bless our new business neighbors, Evolution Hospitality. The president of the company asked about our Center, what we believed, and what denomination we were. I answered that we are spiritual, honoring the golden thread of truth that flows through all religions, and that we believed that consciousness was creative. Immediately…
That’s a deep thought on the image…what does it even mean? Last night I started a new class at The Center for Spiritual Living – Capistrano Valley. I have been taking classes for a couple of years now and they have transformed my life… …that said, last night’s class BLEW my mind! It literally pushed…
In preschool and in life, the value is in the process. When my daughter started preschool, her teacher reminded parents nearly every day, “Process, not product” with regard to art projects. So, she brought home messy, random, child-created art, rather than in-the-lines colored rainbows or perfectly glued collages. The preschool teacher explained that each art…
End of the road or path to enlightenment? Everything is Consciousness. This statement or State of Being is what we know as metaphysicians. What exactly it means has absolutely no charge whatsoever. It just Is. When it comes to analysis of our lives, we tend to look for reasons why certain things happen to us. We’ve…