iArtDaily Challenge Day 15 Today is the midpoint of the #iartdaily challenge. The prompt is via a YouTube video: "A Million Dreams" from "The Greatest Showman." In an earlier blog post I talked about my aversion to anything circus-y, but this song spoke to me. The lyrics: A Million Dreams I close my eyes …
Failing forward
iArtDaily Challenge Day 14 “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” ~ Michael Jordan Tonight I walked by this vision board, which it turns out I created four years ago (I checked with friends). I was thinking I ought to take it down. It hangs …
The Life You Want to Live
iArtDaily Challenge Day 13 The prompt for today's creating was: “Move in with the mindset of the life you want to live.” ~ LeAura Alderson, iCreateDaily.com The mindset I want to always embrace is curiosity. I took a photo of my 2 1/2 year old grandson showing me a fistful of mushrooms, and put it …
Your future is a gift
iArtDaily Challenge Day 12 “Make good use of the present and your future will be your gift.” ~ LeAura Alderson, iCreateDaily.com I took this photo several years ago at one of my favorite retreat places in Michigan, Morningstar Adventures in Leroy. It reminds me that in these tiny pine cones is everything the tree needs …
It’s where you are
The #iArtDaily Challenge for Day 11 is: It's where you are. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ~ Teddy Roosevelt This is perfect for me today because I feel depleted. I really have no creative energy stirring today. So ... I used a photo I took before the holiday of …
The work of our heart
“We are compelled to do the work of our heart, no matter how hard to start.” ~ LeAura Alderson, author, podcaster, entrepreneur, co-founder-iCreateDaily This is the prompt for Day 10 of #iartdaily. It’s also Thursday, writing group day. For more than 10 years, every Thursday (with exceptions made for Thanksgiving and Christmas Day and New …
Creating: An ‘excellent adventure’
#iArtDaily Challenge Day 9: Free to Create! "Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.” ~ Jason Mraz, American singer-songwriter I used to look at a blank page in relative terror. What if I have nothing to bring? What if the page remains blank forever? …
‘Circling the Abyss’
#iArtDaily Challenge Day 8: Stepping Stones "Each moment is a stepping stone to the destination of your day." ~ LeAura Alderson, author, podcaster, entrepreneur, co-founder-iCreateDaily I love stepping stones -- in actuality and in concept. There's nothing more peaceful than walking across a stream on low-lying flattened stones, even pausing to sit on one for …
Come alive!
#iArtDaily Challenge Day 7 Never underestimate the power of music to kindle your heart and remind you of what’s possible. Today the challenge was to listen and respond to "Come Alive," a song from "The Greatest Showman." I have to say, this one was tricky for me. I’d never heard of the show, and I …
‘Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!’
iArtDaily Challenge Day 6: What do you envision? Here's the prompt: "Envision the life you want then head in that direction each day through the goals you set and the actions you take." ~ LeAura Alderson, author, podcaster, entrepreneur, co-founder-iCreateDaily My birthday was Thursday; I turned 63. I’m also still trying to figure out what …
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