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Ah, yes… the coach who understands creatives has inspired me to leave the topiaries, elephants, ugly ducklings and fellow farmvillains. That coach being me. Me  also being a creative being who can easily be distracted, thus sabotaging my own creative projects – even though I attempted to justify being a Farmvillain by my creative play with [...]

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Your farmer can now sit back, drink beer, and do nothing while all the crops are harvested and the pigs truffled.   You, the real person however, become his labourer but at a much much quicker pace.
Notice the exact spot where your farmer lands when you open farmville.  Then trap him/her!  One friend put a nice hedge [...]

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Living life creatively

“Honour the right brain’s random thoughts, aha moments and creative brilliance. Invite the left brain’s logic and planning ability to support that brilliance into fruition.”
                                                             Janet Whitehead.

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If you’ve arrived here as a direct result of my September newsletter, I hope this means you are going to share your ‘essays’.  You already know what this blog space is about, but I’ll include the newsletter article for the unsuspecting people who found this some other way!  (in a nutshell: creative exercise to help [...]

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AVOCADO TABLE
Version 2
In every person’s back pocket,
an invaluable avocado table of events and times
that highlights when creative juices are flowing,
when rivers are beckoning hearts
to abandon all convention
and
stripped of all restrictive clothing,
the innocent call of restorative, rejuvenating
play-inducing
water
captures the body, mind and heart
of unsuspecting staid people
who then find themselves
in an avocado green light
of magical early mornings
and
wistful warm [...]

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I hear ya. Don’t think those thoughts that the title triggered are going unnoticed:
 ”She doesn’t know me very well, does she?”
“I can’t complete a single thing I set out to, that’s what’s wrong with me.”
“I need to lose weight/ gain weight, get fit, get a haircut, and my shoes are ugly.”
“I hate my job.”
“I ‘m terrible [...]

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If you want to be the best you can be in sport, you get a coach.  Ditto for Life.  I’m wise and cool to have a coach… but wait, does this make me wiser and cooler if I am also a certified professional coach? 
 Not only that, if I’ve had the experience of being coached by [...]

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Audacity I and II by Coreena McBurnie
I.
A young spring flower ponders as it grows:
Blooming is so hard, it’s too hard, I fear,
I could look absurd, insane, who knows?
Will THEY find fault with all that I hold dear?
I have a plan, the shrinking violet said,
Compromise, so I won’t seem over-proud,
I’ll grow into a blade of grass [...]

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‘From The Point Of View Of A Mistake’
By Hope Mikal
You curse the moment I took my first breath of air,
And spit on my infant body with such distaste.
You dream of leaving me naked in the winter night,
On a stranger’s hard, cold doorstep.
Sipping a glass of chardonnay, staring me down with a frown,
You get tipsy at [...]

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The Ships sailed to Zazzle!  Originals, no.. but the opportunity to make quality prints and cards. 
The artist statement:  Janet L Whitehead  has been sketching, doodling, and etch-a-sketching Tall Ships since she was a preschooler.  
The fascination has been a mystery… but this is what she  knows:  In this reality they represent the adventurous spirit.  She also [...]

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