Building Creative Resilience: Strategies for Cultivating Enchantment
Adversity and boredom can strip away our joy and creativity. Can a sense of enchantment improve our resilience? Boredom © Jae with CCLicense Have you ever felt as if you were …
Quote for Today: Signe Pike
I wanted to find something of the beauty of myth that we’ve left behind, carry its shreds before us all, so we could acknowledge it, somehow bring it back to …
Quote for Today: Kahlil Gibran
All these things have you said of beauty. Yet in truth you spoke not of her but of needs unsatisfied, And beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It …
Quote for Today: Peter S. Beagle
Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there is a pool clear enough for them to see themselves-for they are …
Quote for Today: Ben Okri
Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws stones at you, but your love …
Quote for Today: Ansul Noor
By some tear in the wish fabric, or the casting of a prayer, or the falling of some lonely star, the enchanted garden was not lost to me, but lost …
Quote for Today: William Shakespeare
Churl, upon thy eyes I throw All the power this charm doth owe. When thou wakest, let love forbid Sleep his seat on thy eyelid: So awake when I am …
Through the Dream of a Child: Brent Bonacorso’s West of the Moon
There is pain and struggle in life that is universal. How can art help us to approach these things differently? Brent Bonacorso has directed videos for Elton John (Home Again) and Katy Perry …
Quote for Today: Mary Stewart
Sometimes, when you’re deep in the countryside, you meet three girls, walking along the hill tracks in the dusk, spinning. They each have a spindle, and on to these they …
Mindfulness Meets Playfulness: A Gallery of Faerie Houses
As we age, the pressure to settle down and turn serious builds. Doesn’t play keep us healthy and encourage awareness? A faerie house is a miniature structure crafted and/or placed outdoors to shelter …