Creativity - Add In Wisdom #7/8

Attending to the wise, who spend time in contemplation, we find the Hopi elders writing on healing with images and words to consider. What is life, if not our heart's path? This message went winding its way from Arizona across the Internet to Japan. It came back to me to share with you. The process of passing along wisdom for renewal.

The elders urge us to attend to balance and to seek renewal, so the world is passed along, as the treasure it is, to all the generations yet to be. In considering creativity, we need to add in the wisdom of what it is that our heart wants us to do. I say this blessing aloud to invite creative opening:

May we all find our heart's path and walk the tao of the heart creative.  Thanks again to Charlie Badenhop for his way of creating harmonic  inspiration. 

See his practices link at www.seishindo.org

Creativity - Sprinkle in Dedication #6/8

Japan Animal Rescue - Click on Link Below to Donate

http://japanearthquakeanimalrelief.chipin.com/japan-earthquake-animal-rescue-and-support

Today finds me continuing to hope for healing for Japan and for several friends, struggling to regain their footing. This dog survived a 4 foot wall of water, then got reporters to come so they could help. The power of this dog's love and dedication moves our hearts in the rhythm of expansion, a powerful part of the creative force.  Animals love beyond reason and that love sustains us even in the worst of times.  Animals live through and despite challenges, and often it is humankind who create the challenges animals face. To feel the force of being alive in adversity and to bring that dedication into the creative process is to live in joy.


The dogs were both rescued and have moved the world with their dedication. The link above goes to the ChipIn website and Paypal account for three Japanese no-kill animal rescues. HEART, Animal Friends Niigata and Japan Cat Network are linking their resources to rescue, reunite, and rehome lost animals in Japan. Please donate.

Creativity - Add Water and Shake #5/8

Following the events in Japan, I find myself curious as to how one might live in the most challenging of times, and still find joy despite such uncertain footing and loss. I feel the grief of those who survive having lost family and friends.  I also sense their gratitude for who and what remains in their everyday. I notice the collective need to focus on the now. 


Checking in on a masterful life teacher who lives in Tokyo, I find him feeding birds, offering prayers, breathing, and chanting. In the midst of uncertainty and fear, I find him creating. So, today I honor Charlie Badenhop for his work in holding ground, praying for a southwesterly wind, and facing hard challenges as he and his adopted country struggle to right what has washed away. In the empty spaces I know there will be new growth and possibilities. To hold growth and new ways of living as truth despite troubling times requires faith in creation.


To see Charlie create and share during these times, is to feel the power of creation, faith, and love. Blessings to Charlie and to the southwesterly winds. May gentle breaths now blow away harm and bring in healing. To hear Charlie and feel his prayers, check out his Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/Seishindo or his website http://www.seishindo.org/ .

Creativity - Add in Milk #4/8

While thinking about cooking up creativity, I could not resist adding in MILK. Check out the farewell to these British animation heroes, who have advertised the benefits of milk through their antics for 4 years. The music rocks and the heroes deserve a farewell swan song for beauty in healthy advertising that we need more of in our culture. The website of Cravendale, is worth a gander too. http://www.milkmatters.co.uk/

Arla Foods, located in Leeds, actually strain their milk of bacteria, enabling it to be described as beneficial for healthy teeth.  While milk may not be good for everybody, milk calms the soul by supplying tryptophan, an essential amino acid that we must ingest in order to digest proteins. Tryptophan converts into niacin and is a precursor to serotonin, the neurotransmitter in our brains and guts that fuels healthy minds and bodies. When food allergies prevent drinking milk, tryptophan from other non-dairy food sources like bananas, nuts, seeds, and soy products may be a viable alternative to discuss with your doctor or nutritionist.  So, goodbye cow, pirate, and cyclist and hello kitty! See the TV link on their website for more creatively delicious images.

Creativity - Blending in Beauty #3/8

Today I am remembering that creative cooking requires the witnessing of beauty. To start from calm and to be able to observe beauty, is to start simmering the creative force.  We only need to observe and then notice how our observation is reflected inside ourselves to develop the beautiful creative.

An amazing photographer took this picture of my cat considering a painting that her landscape architect husband had rendered. The photograph and oil painting are as beautiful to me as the actual world they reflect, now changed by these works into other art forms. This perpetuation of art is important, and a process I invite you to do, however it is that you do art. If you feel you don't do art, consider your gardening or your cooking or you humming or even your cleaning. Beauty grows from what the hand touches and the heart loves. See the beautiful Kiva photo below for helping beauty emerge in the world, and see ClaireRule.com and JeffreyRule.com for more beautiful works in photographic and fine art inspired by the natural world.