Creative Life A thru Z ~J is for Join In

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The Creative Life A thru Z

~J is for Join IN

 Week Eleven

Join In and enjoy !

Join In, with Autumn just about here, I've been looking over the calendar for Fall events. This is the season when Festivals are everywhere .

I've been in the garden cleaning up the summer flowers and wrapping up the hoses. 

There's been a lot of talk about Nutrition around my house. Since we are coming to the end of Farmers Markets, I've been grabbing up all the fresh vegetables and fruits. I'm not saying I'm now a vegetarian, but my plate is about 3/4 vegetables these days. 

Fall is also a good time to think about joining a book club. 

I belong to several on line book clubs. I always enjoy reading the reviews and adding my own comments. 

Art Journal Assignment:

Juxl puzzle, Earth, Jean Hart 

Juxl Puzzles. 

http://www.wikihow.com/Create-and-Work-a-Juxl-Puzzle

  If you are in a group this is a fun way to create a co-art piece of artwork. Just start with one line and pass it to the next person, who draws one line, passes it on again until you have drawn all the lines. Continue with the connecting the lines and pass it on until the picture is complete. Then color it up any way you wish. 

Writing Assignment:

Joy, Joy, Joy....What does it mean? 

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"a feeling of great pleasure and happiness."

"Don't cry because its over, Smile because it happened. "

Dr. Seuss 

1. Write what Joy means to you?

How do you get it?

Where does it come from?

When does it happen?

Why is it important? 

Music please!
Jazz music that is....

Have you listened to Jazz music? 

If not your missing out on some amazingly talented people. 

This is a little Ted Talk to explain the heart of Jazz music. 

How Jazz Wisdom Will Change Your Life | Niels Lan Doky | 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ee-XROfON0

Go to your source of music and switch it over to a Jazz station and listen, move, journal, or just BE with it. 
Some of my favorite Jazz musicians.
Melody Gardot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ee-XROfON0 

Start here and then just keep exploring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYGq-AA8Ksk

As always, have fun with this and join in, like, share, comment. 
Pass it on. 
Be Inspired,
~jean 

Creative Life A thru Z I is for Imagination

The Creative Life A thru Z 

Jean Hart Artwork

Healing Arts journal 

www.zazzle.com/jeanhar1*

The Creative Life A thru Z

~I is for Imagination 

 Week Ten

I would like to express my gratitude to all of you who have joined me in this healing journey of creating a more creative life. 

It's been fun for me to come up with activities for each letter of the alphabet. I have so many ideas that they don't all make it on this blog but are written in my printed pages.  I'm sure by the end of this project it will all be filled with fun activities and helpful projects so everyone can live a greater expression of their own creativity. 

       I is for Imagination

" The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere." 

Terence McKenna

I love the idea of a golden pathway. 

Just like the Wizard of OZ walking on the yellow brick road. 

For me, it has been about curiosity, that is the seed of imagination. 

Asking questions begins a whole snow ball of ideas. 

Golden path to a new vision, journal page Jean Hart

Change.

 I've felt the strong sense of change since the Eclipses!! 

What has been happening for me is a lot of questions about my beliefs, my work, my life. 

It of course starts with what do you want your life to look like. 

How will you get there, and When. The When is important to me especially because I like deadlines. But, then again, maybe that's something I might think about changing. ....

Art Journal Assignment: 

What's on your Golden Path

1. In your art journal, arrange your page to make a golden path. 

It can be straight, crooked, up, down, across.  Anyway YOU want it. 

2. Next, create all the things you want to experience along your path.

3. Create landscapes, texture, people, places, things.

4. Let go and IMAGINE!!

Writing Journal Assignment:

"It's Here...!"

1. Complete this sentence. 

2. Write a page of what your imagination has brought to you on your Golden Path. 

3. The imagination works on all your senses, try to use words that help express the whole experience. The more verbs the better for this assignment. 

I is for Informed

 Change the channel, and watch something you have never seen before. 

This week, change how you get your information. 

Pick up a new magazine, new genre in books and movies. 

See if you can do this once a day for 7 days. 

I is for Ice Cream

Summers not over where I live. 

According to Baskin Robbins there is 31 flavors of ice cream.  I have yet to try them all. 

So, before the summer is over I plan on trying a few new flavors. 

How about you? 

Meditation is one of the purest ways for me to get in touch with my true self. 

Just before creating I sit in nature and be still. 

This helps me open my mind to all new ideas. 

Last week I went up to Lamoille Canyon for a last summer picnic. I made a video of sitting by the stream listening to the water. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmtu1hINgUY&t=23s

Please enjoy, relax, and 

As always, have fun with this. 

Be inspired, 

~jean