Of Holidays and Puppy Love
With a holiday just past and a new puppy in the household, Stan Stewart would love to take the week off from blogging. Or so he says.
Creative Insights
Along the way, Stan Stewart has learned a few things about creativity. He shares them with you in the hope that you’ll respond with your confirmation or perhaps that your experience is completely different. Both are welcome.
This is also a place where you’ll find some articles about inspiration. After all, that’s an essential part of artistic creativity, too.
Creative Doldrums – Don’t Let Them Fool You
Creative doldrums – after a big creative project, I often experience a downturn in my motivation. What’s the remedy for this?
Feeling All Of The Feels – Finding Expression
To feel our emotions is a challenge for many of us. During the pandemic, feeling has been tougher for even the most resilient people.
Singing Grief: What’s It Take To Make A Pandemic Choir?
Last week, I shared with you “what is a requiem?” Historically, choirs would sing most requiems accompanied by a variety of instruments. But during this pandemic, scientists have warned us that it may be dangerous to sing together. Though it does not compare to the loss of lives, the loss of live music was another …
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Composing a Requiem: What Is A Requiem?
Every time I tell people that I’m composing a requiem, they almost always say, “What’s a requiem?” Well, here you go…
Long Pandemic – On Finding Our Way
We are finding our way. In my workplace and neighborhood, we’ve been responding to the pandemic for over a year. Reflecting back, it has been a strange year. In addition to some current reflections, I’ll offer you some of my other posts about the pandemic experience from the past year. Remembering Loved Ones Gone No …
Loneliness and the Power of Convergence
The pandemic has led to so many challenges for creatives and human beings in general. Yet there is also a convergence coming out of it.
On Moving My Parents Across the Country
My parents just moved across the USA. Little did I know how ‘moving” this journey would be when we started it.
How To Become (though I’m still in process)
Getting Started With every project and process in our human lives, we must first get started. For so many of us who pursue our creative arts, it is far too easy to question our motives, procrastinate, doubt, or fail to recognize the cathartic nature of the creative process. Though we may question this truth before …
Be Ready – “How To Become” Moving Water Video
Be ready. Here’s the first track you can hear from my soon-to-be-released album, “How To Become”. It comes in the form of a moving water video meditation. I hope you find it inspiring. (The video is at the end of this article or here.) Water Human bodies are more than 50% water. You’d think we’d …