How My Intuition Wrote My Picture Book The Donkey’s Song

When I am painting and when I am writing, I consider it a great day when something within myself takes over and essentially completes my project for me. This gentle urging is intuition. It is the spark that helped Michelangelo release his sculptures from a piece of rock. Janis Joplin – Jacki Kellum Watercolor My…

What Is Intuition & How Does It Help Us Create?

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free” – Michelangelo – In the above words, Michelangelo has described how intuition helped him sculpt. Michelangelo was a famous artist during the Italian Renaissance.  He was commissioned by Pope Julius II to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel between the…

Writing in A Stream of Consciousness

Write in A Stream of Consciousness to Hush Your Self-Editor Something about writing seems to intimidate and/or frighten many people. Writing in a Stream of Consciousness can help get you past that fear of writing. What Is Writing in A Stream of Consciousness? Writing in a Stream of Consciousness is a Type of Free Writing. …

Something Wicked This Way Comes Chapter 3

For this post, I’ll be quoting from the following edition of Ray Bradbury’s masterful novel Something Wicked This Way Comes: Bradbury, Ray. Something Wicked This Way Comes. Large Print edition, Center Point Publishing, 2000. The page numbers will be different if you are reading from another edition of the book. Will and Jim as a Pair–Two Boys…

Loss of Intuition Is A Centuries-Old Problem for Both Women and Men

Romanticism is a Cultural Movement that is almost 300 years old. It began with the teachings of Jean Jacques Rousseau in the 1700s. I discovered Romanticism when my 10th-grade English teacher introduced me to William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience. Blake’s Experience is a state of alienation and emotional exile. I grew up in…

Women Who Run with the Wolves Quotes

Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly “Folklore, fairy tales and dream symbols are called on to help restore women’s neglected intuitive and instinctive abilities in this earthy first book by a Jungian analyst. According to Estes, wolves and women share a psychic bond in their fierceness, grace and devotion to mate and community. This comparison defines…