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Clearing a Path for Creativity

Clearing a Path for Creativity

For many years I thought being positive was a process of denying my fears and resentments, the main obstacles for a creative flow, and replacing them with love and acceptance.   The Law of Attraction is great stuff but I have found until I was first able to face my...

The Role of the Master

In life we take turns being the master or the apprentice.  Often we are both at once.  These distinctions are always by mutual agreement.  It is through these relationships that we grow.  Some master/apprentice  arrangements are healthy.  Some are not.  When the ego...

Producing Greatness

The true artist has no pride; unhappily he realizes that art has no limitations, he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and while, perhaps he is admired by others, he grieves that he has not yet reached the point where the better genius shall shine before him...

Acting Methods

Some of you may not realize I am an actor.   My experience and training is eclectic. My technique borrows from Stanislavski, Adler, Meisner, Strassberg and a myriad of others who's names you probably don't know.  I even studied with Mark Lenard (Sarak from Star Trek)!...

Words and the Right Brain

Whatever you put in is what will come out, recycled as something else. For instance, I wonder about using music with lyrics as a "background" for painting.  Personally, I use instrumental music.  If I hear lyrics it activates my left brain, which tends to think of...

Ambition and Bliss

What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lauded works of our favorite composers today?  Inasmuch as nearly everything is subject to the changes of time, and, more’s the pity, the fashions of time, only that which is good and true, will endure like a...

Talent Shmalent

You will have to play a long time yet before you realize that you can not play at all. Ludwig Van Beethoven People, students, often ask me to tell them if they have talent, as if to suggest they should not want to waste their time, devoting themselves to something...

My students make me proud!

Don't forget I offer an ongoing Drawing/Painting class every Wednesday, 10am - 12:30 pm to get those creative juices flowing. Join us in our spiritual quest on the banks of the Ashley River.  It's always a great time to jump in and open yourself up to your creative...

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