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Looneyville, Paradise & Oatmeal are all small Texas towns captured by the photographer, Keith Carter and shared in his book and current exhibit
"From Uncertain to Blue."
Join me, Jill Allison Bryan, and the Creative Oasis Day Trippers, Wednesday, January 18, 2012, when we'll meet up in the design district to view these black and white photos and enjoy some creativity of our own.
" Keith Carter has the gift of taking things we have seen all our lives - a watermelon stand, a black country church, a graveyard, a clothesline with chickens underneath, a country store - and giving them another dimension, a beauty that you can't easily be rid of." -Horton Foote, 1988
When Horton Foote wrote these words in 1988, perhaps most of us had seen images like these with our own eyes, but with the advent of urban sprawl and mega highways, I believe that photographs such as these, in addition to their stark beauty and truth, offer a rare testament to a bygone era, making them all the more precious. Though the subjects are simple, the stories they tell invite us to imagine another way of life that is all but disappearing from our country.
When
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - Noon
Where
Photographs Do Not Bend
1202 Dragon St., Suite 103
Dallas, Texas 75207
214-969-1852
Cost
$15
Once you register, you'll receive a creative prompt a few days before our outing designed to deepen your creative experience and share something special from Creative Oasis Coaching. These trips are also a fabulous way to connect with other creative types! It's always a great group of interesting people. Join us, won't you?
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Living The Creative Life
6 weeks dedicated to gently
infusing your life with creativity
Join me and what always ends up being a very cool group of women as we spend 6 weeks together learning and practicing simple, joyful ways to add creative fulfillment to our lives. Classes begin the week of February 6, 2012. Space is limited to 8 per class, so save yours by registering soon.
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In Bhutan in front of the ubiquitous prayer flags
If you've spent even a minute of this New Year beating yourself up for not getting to your creativity, I'd like to give you permission to stop...take three deep breaths...and forgive yourself.
(go ahead...I'll wait)
I'm speaking from experience here. I have been hard on myself lately for not having written more about my trip to Bhutan (as I promised I would) and so, in the spirit of self-compassion (which has been proven by science and supported by the successful results of Kaize-Muze® Creativity Coaching to be a much more effective agent of change than guilt!) I forgive myself and offer the above photo as a "good enough for now" place holder until I write my next Bhutan blog post. And you know what, it really does feel good enough and better than not doing anything at all - just to post that one photo.
What might you allow yourself to do today if you can let go of perfection and practice being "good enough" instead?
(besides - perfect people are obnoxious and boring!)
Hope to see you at a trip, class or workshop soon!
In the meantime, I remain imperfectly yours, Jill Jill Allison Bryan Certified Kaizen-Muse®Creativity Coach Founder of Creative Oasis Coaching(TM) Singer/Songwriter Lucky World Traveler www.creativeoasiscoaching.com creativeoasiscoach@me.com |
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Permission to
Be Creative 101
A day long mini-retreat introducing fun and amazingly effective ways to create the time and space for creative fulfillment in your busy life.
March 3rd, 2012
or
April 28, 2012
10am to 3pm
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As a certified Kaizen-Muse® Creativity Coach, I offer personalized coaching through phone sessions with detailed e-mail follow-ups. Currently I have only 3 spaces open to accept new and returning one-on-one clients. These spots will fill on a first come, first serve basis, so please contact me here if you'd like to enjoy the benefits of the individualized attention and accountability of one-on-one creativity coaching.
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(Any typos, grammatical, tactical, or deisgn-related errors were purposefully left in this newsletter to uphold the non-perfectionism that we Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaches advise and support in the name of getting sh*t done!)
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This space left blank intentionally for you to fill with dreams, poems, songs, recipes, dances, kazoo solos, travel plans, good books, favorite memories, good smelling candles, clementines (my favorite winter fruit), small questions, and acceptance that we all truly have enough, do enough and are enough and that's good enough for me.
With love and light,
Jill
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