Imaginal Journal
Imagination is Medicine
Creativity is Sacred
“Creativity is sacred, and it is not sacred. What we make matters enormously, and it doesn’t matter at all. We toil alone, and we are accompanied by spirits. We are terrified, and we are brave. Art is a crushing chore and a wonderful privilege. Only when we are at our most playful can divinity finally get serious with us. Make space for all these paradoxes to be equally true inside your soul, and I promise—you can make anything. So please calm down now and get back to work, okay? The treasures that are hidden inside you are hoping you will say yes.”
Living for Summer
Skating, falafel, dodgers, mala, and rams, oh, my! What an unexpectedly fun and full birthday I've had.
Anais Nin’s Diary
Spending time reading a book I picked up from a used bookstore in Ojai someone back, its the 6th volume of Anais Nin’a diaries from 1955-1966. Amid a dazzling array of insights, people, and dense imagination. I am finding her integration of her later years beyond the typical exploits often associated with her youth.
Let Stories Happen to You
“I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you, and that you will work with these stories... water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.”
