Using Creative Power.

It is when you are really living in the present - working, thinking, lost, absorbed in something you care about very much, that you are living spiritually....For I know that the energy of the creative impulse comes from love and all its manifestations - admiration, compassion, glowing respect, gratitude, praise, tenderness, adoration, enthusiasm. And why should we all use our creative power? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold, and compassionate.

Brenda Ueland

Monday, February 22, 2010

kindness.

this is one of my favorite poems by one of our country's best contemporary poets. we're so used to the demands to be nice. so used to constructing our niceties for the family or neighborhood. meanwhile we're frustrated by the demands while craving more authentic connections.

especially as women.

be nice. good girls do this or don't do that. we're supposed to be pleasing and agreeable.

especially as women.

we can strive for kindness.

http://elise.com/quotes/poetry/naomi.htm
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