A Sea Spell, 1877, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Image courtesy of WikiArt.
“The creative act is a courageous, ancient gesture, a dynamic exploration of the dark mystery that is human existence.” ~ Adriana Diaz, as quoted in Roderick MacIver’s Art As A Way of Life.
The creative gesture means many things.
Yes, we express creativity through the more traditionally recognized creative arts like writing, painting, music, storytelling, cooking … so many!
Pandora, 1896, by John William Waterhouse. To read the story of Pandora and what was really in Pandora’s Box, see the link at the end of this blog post!
But also, we express the creative genius when we birth new awareness (or reclaim forgotten ancient wisdom!), ideas, inspirations, insights, relationships, ways of caring, home-tending magic, and all manner of creative adventures and experiments.
Speaking of the creative evolutionary power of reclaiming important stories…
Read the real story about Pandora and what was in that box (before the story got edited), in this Sophia’s Children post – Chaos, Creativity & Pandora’s Real Box.
Even shattering the little box that ‘creativity’ has been shoved into is itself a highly creative and evolutionary act!
Jamie has long been an inspiration partner and lantern-holder for her fellow transformation leaders, change catalysts, and creative nonconformists who are living, inspiring, and (intentionally or not) leading the way in these chaotic times.
When she's not tending and stirring the Sophia's Children cauldron, she's following research trails, and serving as the Director of a Repro-Justice-oriented women's health center in her community, co-creating a safe, in-person compassionate care environment in a world that increasingly seems to lack that.
Jamie is a long-time servant of the Muse, a writer and author, an intrepid walker and feline-tender, and is passionate about the healing power and relevance of reclaiming ancestral-wisdom and healing (or at least understanding) ancestral (and other types of) trauma. She has great appreciation for dark chocolate and cooking other nourishing, delicious meals -- often plant-based -- to nourish her partner and her peeps, and otherwise doing the same day to day things we all do.
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