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A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people. Laughter is the best creative…
Creativity Prompt #30: We Are Waughing and Waughing and Waughing | 30-Day Creativity Challenge
Apr 30, 2023
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Jeannine Ouellette
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness ~ Maya Angelou
Creativity Prompt #29: Music Moves in Us | 30-Day Creativity Challenge
Apr 29, 2023
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Jeannine Ouellette
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Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else ever thought. ~Albert Einstein
Creativity Prompt #28: The Ugly Beautiful Surprise of Incongruity | 30-Day Creativity Challenge
Apr 28, 2023
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Jeannine Ouellette
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“I need rituals that encourage me to embrace what is repetitive, ancient, and quiet.” ― Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary…
Creativity Prompt #27: The Beauty of Boring | 30-Day Creativity Challenge
Apr 27, 2023
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Jeannine Ouellette
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Billie Oh
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What I’ve used [the cut-up technique] for ... is igniting anything that might be in my imagination. It can often come up with very…
Creativity Prompt #26: Freeing The Dizzying Energy of the Unconscious
Apr 26, 2023
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Jeannine Ouellette
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Unused creativity isn't benign. It lives within us until it’s expressed, neglected to death, or suffocated by resentment and fear. ~Brene…
Creativity Prompt #25: Mastering The Art Of (Self) Conversation | 30-Day Creativity Challenge
Apr 25, 2023
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Jeannine Ouellette
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Writing is “based in a craving to get through the curtains of things as they appear, to things as they are, and then into the larger, wilder…
Creativity Prompt #24: Tracing the Edge of Great Shadow | 30-Day Creativity Challenge
Apr 24, 2023
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Jeannine Ouellette
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Ask the world to reveal its quietude ... the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are…
Creativity Prompt #23: The Secret Power of “Not Yet” and the Importance of Stillness | 30-Day Creativity Challenge
Apr 23, 2023
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Jeannine Ouellette
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Billie Oh
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Nothing, not one thing, hurts us more — or causes us to hurt others more — than our certainties. ~Maria Popova
Creative Prompt #22: Jeu Parti, A Literary Question & Answer Game
Apr 22, 2023
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Jeannine Ouellette
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. ~Voltaire
Creativity Prompt #21: Bone and Joy and Snarling | 30-Day Creativity Challenge
Apr 21, 2023
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Jeannine Ouellette
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Or maybe it was more like the development of a delight muscle. Something that implied that the more you study delight, the more delight…
Creativity Prompt #20: A Note of Appreciation | 30-Day Creativity Challenge
Apr 20, 2023
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Jeannine Ouellette
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Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities, and ways out of blocked situations. ~Carl…
Creativity Prompt #18: Apology Epistle | 30-Day Creativity Challenge
Apr 19, 2023
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Jeannine Ouellette
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