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Circle Practice

  We had a great Circle yesterday, with 2 hosts and 15 guests joining, sharing insights and creativity!  My inquiry was, 'what guides you? What's your inner Compass?' We   drew inspiration from this practice of Bonnie Smith Whitehouse, which I've been following most days. January 23 RT Creatives Studies have found what we already *knew* -that doing a creative practice early in the day stimulates our body's production of the 'feel-good' neurotransmitter dopamine, and is uplifting. Inner peace and self-awareness requires cultivation.  Drawing and filling a circle is a sweet way to take Tea with the Muse, and tend our inner gardens. Take a moment to center, pour a cuppa, light a candle, tug your Red Thread Work on paper, canvas, your Smashbook / art journal, or on a card Use a template to draw a circle (coaster, small cup, ... Options: Invite insights for the day Put 'scary things' inside a circle and form up the boundary Metacognative drawing  Neurogr...

Circle Art Challenge

 ᎤᎵᎮᎵᏍᏗ  ᎢᏤ  ᎠᏕᏘᏱᏍᎬᎢ   U-li-he-lis-di  i-tse  a-de-ti-yi-s-gv-i / happy new year! What's on your creative table in 2025? For 2024, our pastor Erika Marksbury got a grant to use Bonnie Smith Whitehouse 's lovely book, Seasons of Wonder, for inspiration and focus. The grant covered copies of the book for the congregation, plus supplies for our monthly Makers Meetings and funds for field trips; and we met in small groups for monthly discussion.  I really enjoy Bonnie's approach of interweaving gathering as a circle (!!), sharing creativity, connecting with nature, each other and the Divine. I've ordered her Kickstart Creativity  cards. In the introduction, Bonnie quotes Steven Charleston ,  ' It is all a circle, the ancestors said -- an endless circle within a circle. The drum is a circle.  The dance ground is a circle. The earth is a circle.  There is no us or them, no top or bottom, no beginning or end, no lines of division -- o...