Good morning from New York City. What I’m thinking about today is this idea that we are all artists. It’s definitely in the zeitgeist, not only in Rick Rubin’s book The Creative Act’, which I cite often. I’m seeing articles pop up and in fact I just listened in on this month’s Creative Mornings. If you don’t know about Creative Mornings, it’s an organization with chapters all over the world. They get together – physically and virtually – once a month and have very interesting authors and speakers on a whole host of topics.

Today’s session which came at just the perfect time was entitled ‘We Are All Artists’. What it really all comes down to is intentionally paying attention. Thinking of the world as your studio . Thinking of your life – how you design it, how you live it, how you nurture it – as a creative act. It’s about sensorial stimulation. It’s about making the unconscious conscious. It’s about noticing what you’re noticing, becoming the observer. And of course, it’s about living with intention.

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