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Habits for Creativity – Investing in Yourself for Improved Mental and Physical Health

1 Comment / Creative Insights, Guest Posts / Stan Stewart

Embarking on a new creative project is always exciting, with countless opportunities for you to decide what you want to accomplish and how you’ll pull it off. However, Stan Stewart writes that you might push a project too far in the process—overthinking every creative decision, getting frustrated, and ultimately running out of ideas. In these […]

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going with the flowing

Creative Insights / Stan Stewart

Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it! ~ W.H. Murray Momentum There’s a wisdom that’s come down through the ages that seems to really be true. Here’s my paraphrase: Wherever you put your attention, that’s what’s going to expand in your life. If you get

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Poem: Mountaintop Experience

2 Comments / Poetry and More / Stan Stewart

I have a friend who Perpetually Pursues the Precipice That he blissfully calls Mountaintop experiences. (“Mountaintop experiences” Are what I used to call Those ever so gentle weekend retreats I have enjoyed attending and For which I seem to have nothing To show in spite of the bravado With which I shared my experiences From

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Poem 0168: demonstration

Music, Poetry, and More / Stan Stewart

Outside my morning window, two birds are having a bit of a chat. It seems that they want to demonstrate that they each can sing A song of their own choosing. Amazing how such so-called “unintelligent” creatures understand So deeply for what they were created: to sing their own simple Song and not worry about

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#Poem – short and sweet

2 Comments / Music, Poetry, and More, Poetry and More / Stan Stewart

I was the non-tall kid in my grade school And my stature has never really changed much In comparison with my peers. So each time I get a retail coffee, I ask For a “tall”, hoping beyond hope that Today will be the day. ~ by Stan Stewart Copyright © 2011 by muz4now, inc. All

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#Poem – one thing

2 Comments / Music, Poetry, and More, Poetry and More / Stan Stewart

One thing counts: It may be love, It may be compassion, It may be delight, Or it may be beauty, But one thing counts. I awake to the chill of Morning and know that This is not a day to be Wasted or even Taken for granted. For to make even one Thing count, I

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#Poem – open and sing

Music, Poetry, and More, Poetry and More / Stan Stewart

Open the curtains Of the soul And let the Sun of day Shine. The heart closed Is the heart frozen. Solid and impenetrable, It lets nothing in and Nothing out. Hearts can sing A song not yet heard And sorely needed by A friend. The soul so Exposed does not Have to let the cold

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#Poem – up

Music, Poetry, and More, Poetry and More / Stan Stewart

I started the day, Head down. I was lookin’ way Toward frown. Walkin’ and wakin’, Head down. Avenues shakin’ Toward frown. One little change made All right. Open eyes parade New sight. Turn my head to sun; All right. Sadness changed to fun New sight. ~ by Stan Stewart Copyright © 2011 by Music for

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#Poem – magic too

Music, Poetry, and More, Poetry and More / Stan Stewart

Start now. The waiting is over. Actually, it’s been over for A long time. It’s just my body that Thought the old doldrums Were still in vogue. Catch up now with the Train that’s already speeding ahead. I must be agile, fit and young enough Still to grind the unhallowed asphalt Under my heels. Move!

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