Love Letters to the World: How to Cultivate Connection With the Stranger on the Park Bench

“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.” ― Kurt Vonnegut I've been hiding little love notes all over my city. I've been going through a lot of personal life changes lately, …

Transforming Public Space: Exploring Street Art in Four Cities

"It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look. To affect the quality of the day - that is the highest of …

Photo Journey Part 6

This is the last segment of my 30 Days of Creativity challenge! Day 26: Find Something That is Always Growing Day 27: Document a Favourite Building Day 28: Explore History Day 29: Capture the Light Day 30: Let a Picture Tell a Story 26. [growing pains]: I've been doing so much self-discovery these days - …

Photo Journey Part 5

The 30 Days of Creativity adventure continues! Day 21: Doodle Something and Document it: Day 22: Explore a Neglected Body Part Day 23: Transform Something Boring and Mundane into Something Interesting Day 24: Capture Something Vibrant! Day 25: Capture Something in Black and White 21. [find your spark]: I was trying to find a message …

Ways of Seeing – How to Transform the Mundane into Wonder

Ahh, so the patience and gentleness and breathing and leaning-into-the-discomfort-of -feeling-blocked worked wonders. The pause. The space. The letting go. I woke up this morning groggy, but way more grounded. Behind my heavy eyes, the old excitement hid. I could feel it. I left for my walk to work and everything was illuminated with wonder …

Photo Journey Part 4

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.” –Osho I'm a couple days late …

Photo Journey Part 3

"It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look. To affect the quality of the day - that is the highest of …

Photo Journey Part 2

Day 6: Take a photo of water Day 7: Capture a quiet space where you feel at peace Day 8: Take a self-portrait to express your feelings today Day 9: Record a smell that reminds you of a favourite memory Day 10: Explore a fear  6: [fish out of water]. a stencil found on the …

Photo Journey Part 1

30 Days of Creativity Days 1-5 Capture an Interesting Texture Capture Something from a Different Angle Find Something with Primary Colours Capture Something Sensual Take a New Route/Explore a New Area and Document It cracked chocolate creme brulee a peek inside my martini glass (with a chocolate kiss at the bottom) rainbow flag draped over …

Love is….the 30 Days of Creativity Challenge

So, the kick-your-ass (in a really good way) inspiring 30 days of creativity project begins again today! Holy crap, I can’t believe it’s been a year already since I first made my attempt at it. To be honest, I initially hesitated about committing myself to it (last year, a deficit in self-reflection and lack of …