Exploring other creative expressions
A creative life doesn’t need to be lonely Creative work can feel solitary and isolating at different points in the process. There are moments of momentum and moments of uncertainty, and often a sense that you are carrying a lot of it on your own. I have seen how much...
As life shifted between major milestones, unexpected changes, and even a few uninvited guests, this summer truly became a masterclass in transitions, milestones and mice. Ambitions and Adjustments At the beginning of the year, I planned to write a monthly blog post....
How do you choose your holidays? Are you someone who likes to return to a place of beloved memories or do you prefer to explore different places to make new ones? For me it depends on how adventurous or curious I am feeling. And to be fair also just how busy life has...
‘Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different.’ Frances Mayes, Under The Tuscan Sun Rolling Hills and Tuscan Treats From twenty-four hours wandering through the buzzing, cobbled streets of Florence, crossing piazzas full to the...
The Creative Switch: 24 Episodes, Big Lessons & A New Chapter If you have been listening to The Creative Switch podcast, you’ll know I set out to inspire the ‘sensibly successful’ to switch on their unexpressed creativity for a more fulfilled life. As a Creative...
Where am I going? What have I been up to in the last six months? Before I tell you that I think it's useful to go back a little bit and talk about why I launched The Creative Switch podcast. Why the Creative Switch Podcast After I published pivotal and the pandemic...
Firm Foundations Some followers of the Phoenix Quest appear to possess expertise in the building trade and offer ‘useful’ advice: ‘Expect the worst.’ ‘The timescales will overrun.’ ‘The budget will blow.’ Since these Doubting Thomases do not have access to a crystal...
Room with a View The feature photograph is not quite the Florentine view of E. M Forster’s River Arno and this post is not to be confused with that story, nor the 1980’s Merchant Ivory classic film adaptation of his Edwardian tale, A Room with a View. Of the ever...
Blue Sky Reality Today is one of those days of Blue Sky reality. The Blue Sky dreaming used to stretch my vision to a vanishing point; always drawing me towards the goal; always just out of reach of my fingertips. No more. After many years of imagining and several...
Pots of Money Following the late August departure of the lovely ladies in my last Phoenix Quest post, I left you pondering the question of budget, or rather its pots of money definition. You may be suspecting some kind of overspend or major unforeseen issue, requiring...
Exploring other creative expressions
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