Writing Prompt: The Artistry of Feelings
Our feelings are a tool for self-cultivation.
Writing prompt: What texture and what color are your feelings?
Similar Posts
Creativity Practice Essay by Walter Hawn: “It Ain’t Practice Unless It’s Work”
Walter Hawn is an award-winning writer, former broadcast newsman, and a photographer practicing in Wyoming which he calls “the last best place in the world.” You can find more of his work of capturing Western light through photography at www.walterhawn.com. I met Walter through an Eric Maisel creativity support group, and am continually enchanted by…
Linda Della Donna’s Little Red Mail Box Interviews Janet Grace Riehl about “Sightlines” and “What’s it like to be living your dream?”
Linda Della Donna has a cool blog named “Little Red Mailbox” filled with print interviews, and now I’ve joined the throng. You can check it out by clicking here. Clocking in at around 2,800 words–quite long for an interview of this sort–it’s very in-depth–I’d say that Linda’s Little Red Mailbox is in danger of being…
Dr. Eric Maisel’s “The Van Gogh Blues” explores premise: Creating connection chases depression in visual artists, writers, and performers by strengthening meaning.
Welcome to Day Two of “The Van Gogh Blues” book blog tour. Day One began yesterday on Gabrielle Swain’s “Handmaiden,” and there are some good comments building a discussion over there. In “The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person’s Path through Depression” Dr. Eric Maisel (pronouced May-ZEL) presents a number of useful tools and concepts….
Transcendent Twig Sculpture
Lloyd Kleine Harvey with Suzanne Tucker Lloyd Klein Harvey has been a friend of mine since the late 1990s. He sponsored my Peace Flag workshop in his Art from Recycled Materials studio at the City Museum. We started the Peace Project at the Millennium. Since then, I’ve moved to St. Louis and seen his artwork…
Sightlines Blog Tour Video #7: Interview with Suzy Bogguss at Launch Dinner
Title: CD launch dinner Part 6 (featuring Suzy Bogguss) Description: Stage 7, celebration: launch dinner at Sportsman Grille and Lodge. Janet reads Pop’s “I.M.A. Fox” that goes with his fox carving he sent as a gift. Interview with Cousin Suzy Bogguss. Janet and Suzy discuss her hard-won Nashville success, their family connection that began at…
Sightlines Podcasts
If you go to www.bloggingauthors.com, you can hear these five recordings on “Fascinating Author Podcasts”: 1. Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary 2. Why I Wrote a Book 3. Praising Mother 4. Memento Mori: Life and Death, Moment by Moment 5. P.O.D. Quality Control I enjoyed making these recordings and hope you’ll enjoy listening to them.
Waves of blue calm and serenity.
Smooth plains of radiant, joyful purple.
Ant hills of bristly red anger and frustration.
No longer mountains of red – since my new beginning.
Janean…what a great response to this writing response! Definitely one for your archives. You are a gifted writer. Keep going.
(Aunt) Janet
Red like the color
of roses
Gold in the summer mountains
Silver like a river
flowing over rocks
Clouded blue of a sky
on a spare yard of winter
Dear Lilie,
What good use of color! I can see the scene clearly. I hope that you submit some poems for my poem of the day series. Look forward to hearing more about your creative life.
Janet
TODAY
Grey before sunrise
a snowfall waiting
coffee and a quiet day
brewing