Imagine how much creative energy there is in all the people who are oppressed! How much they hold power, solutions, creative thoughts, ideas and more?! Imagine how much power is held in all the people!
I just posted an article I wrote back in January (see: "The Power of Freedom" in Jan 2009 archive) - and just editing that piece really got me thinking... It's also part of the material I'm writing about in my book... so this is all good germinating!
Creativity flourishes when we are free, nurtured, empowered, embraced and allowed. Creativity is also the fuel that lights every fire... it is the source of all great ideas, inventions, new thinking, processes, new products, services, government solutions... I could go on and on...
Creativity is the heart of everything...
So what happens when we understand it?! What happens when we unleash all that power? All those creative solutions held up in all the people... What happens when we really learn how to get at the heart of creativity?!
This is the heart of what I'm sharing... the very content I'm here to talk about! And so, I am very excited... for as I write, my knowing comes blazing forth... that this is it! I've got to get these words out... I've got to share much more!
I'm still figuring out just how to share it all... but this much I know... there is a river gushing forward in me, for there is vast and profound importance to understanding creativity - It is critical to everything! And so, I am humbled... and determined... to share this content further!
Much more to come... I am certain!
Stay tuned!
by Sharon L. Corsaro
Learn more at www.growing-gold.com
Monday, March 2, 2009
Getting the Ball Rolling!
Feels amazing to get things rolling...
I got out of LA for a much needed break - and funny, the place that I ended up getting to is a tiny little frozen village of about 400 people in a place I once lived in Alaska. When I arrived the first time many years back not knowing a soul, it was dead of winter in 40 below cold - and so this time again, I arrived in deep winter.
Early this year, a funny set of circumstances created a beautiful opening that allowed me the time and space to come here for awhile to create... by the Grace of God (and some great old friends) the trip has been a miraculous gift of freedom to write! And so, I am pulling it out now... with GREAT relief as it feels so good to finally do just that!
Somehow back in LA I just could not muster enough calm that was needed to be quiet long enough, to get this all out of me... So, thank you God, I am here - and it's all unfolding with grace!
Feels like it's been two months that I've been here though it's actually been much less.
It was about the first of January when this New Year started with a bang for me – and I suddenly knew I could not hold on anymore, and I really really really needed to get out of LA for awhile! Not for good... but "please" I thought, “just give me some time and space to quiet”... Within just days of that thought, I was putting my life in order to allow for the shift I sensed would come... then finally the doors swung open and just after our new President was sworn in - perhaps in the vein of new freedom - I was off on a plane to the cold barren north, to the top of the world, to create and produce what had been waiting inside for too long...
Unexpected Twists...
Ever so strange as often occurs, I showed up at precisely the right time as, though I may try, the eternal healer in me never ceases... Turns out I arrived to be present for someone's death... and not just one, but two. While showing up almost unannounced as the trip happened so fast, it turns out that Divine Timing was right in line, as I got here within a day of some dear old friends needing support as they struggled to walk through the very painful and unexpected deaths of two very special people... Strange for me indeed, but actually not surprising, for in times like these, I am reminded how much I live by a deep inner "different drummer" that always puts me in the right place at the right time – to be of service to something much bigger, as this great mystery continues, and the journey widens ever deeper.
The experience of death - especially unexpected and quick death - is a powerful thing to witness... I was at a distance in both cases being support to those who were much closer... but in any proximity, death puts in my face the truth of my own sensitivity to feel well beyond the seen and spoken world - reminding me how grateful I am for the ability to see, feel, sense and listen to the presence that guides me ever diligently through the unseen parts of this world.
Back to writing?
So a good chunk of my time here was for a reason I could have never known before coming... and now, I am gifted with the grace of time while for the last week or so I’ve been devoted to writing - with some excellent unfolding occurring!
In being true to my own teaching – I must acknowledge that even while being distracted without time to write for a good chunk of my time here, I'd have to say that the whole time I've been here it's all been brewing – as I've slowed down, rested and helped my friends – so that now, the writing spills out with much greater ease!
Fruits of my labor...
I am working on a book to encapsulate the work I've developed for many years – about creativity, the process of change and creative problem solving for any arena... the "how to" for empowering the process of change for much greater ease in life, work and all points in between! I wrote a first draft of this book more than two years ago, but it just wasn't quite time and it wasn’t quite ready... And NOW – it IS time and I am ready! So I’ve let go of the old and I'm allowing fresh material to pour forth on the page - as it wants to NOW - appropriate and aligned with the times... and this is all very good!
I'm very excited to share more systematically this work that’s been building for many years... the "artistry" I've developed for approaching life and work from a very different perspective, a very creative perspective, to empower the process of change that is naturally inherent in everything we know ~ to work with the process for endlessly creative solutions!
I hope you will stand by ~ to watch, witness and partake, in this awesome and beautiful unfolding...
I’ll be sharing much more very soon!
Blessings Abound ~ May Grace be our Guide Everyday!
by Sharon L. Corsaro
Learn more at http://www.growing-gold.com/
I got out of LA for a much needed break - and funny, the place that I ended up getting to is a tiny little frozen village of about 400 people in a place I once lived in Alaska. When I arrived the first time many years back not knowing a soul, it was dead of winter in 40 below cold - and so this time again, I arrived in deep winter.
Early this year, a funny set of circumstances created a beautiful opening that allowed me the time and space to come here for awhile to create... by the Grace of God (and some great old friends) the trip has been a miraculous gift of freedom to write! And so, I am pulling it out now... with GREAT relief as it feels so good to finally do just that!
Somehow back in LA I just could not muster enough calm that was needed to be quiet long enough, to get this all out of me... So, thank you God, I am here - and it's all unfolding with grace!
Feels like it's been two months that I've been here though it's actually been much less.
It was about the first of January when this New Year started with a bang for me – and I suddenly knew I could not hold on anymore, and I really really really needed to get out of LA for awhile! Not for good... but "please" I thought, “just give me some time and space to quiet”... Within just days of that thought, I was putting my life in order to allow for the shift I sensed would come... then finally the doors swung open and just after our new President was sworn in - perhaps in the vein of new freedom - I was off on a plane to the cold barren north, to the top of the world, to create and produce what had been waiting inside for too long...
Unexpected Twists...
Ever so strange as often occurs, I showed up at precisely the right time as, though I may try, the eternal healer in me never ceases... Turns out I arrived to be present for someone's death... and not just one, but two. While showing up almost unannounced as the trip happened so fast, it turns out that Divine Timing was right in line, as I got here within a day of some dear old friends needing support as they struggled to walk through the very painful and unexpected deaths of two very special people... Strange for me indeed, but actually not surprising, for in times like these, I am reminded how much I live by a deep inner "different drummer" that always puts me in the right place at the right time – to be of service to something much bigger, as this great mystery continues, and the journey widens ever deeper.
The experience of death - especially unexpected and quick death - is a powerful thing to witness... I was at a distance in both cases being support to those who were much closer... but in any proximity, death puts in my face the truth of my own sensitivity to feel well beyond the seen and spoken world - reminding me how grateful I am for the ability to see, feel, sense and listen to the presence that guides me ever diligently through the unseen parts of this world.
Back to writing?
So a good chunk of my time here was for a reason I could have never known before coming... and now, I am gifted with the grace of time while for the last week or so I’ve been devoted to writing - with some excellent unfolding occurring!
In being true to my own teaching – I must acknowledge that even while being distracted without time to write for a good chunk of my time here, I'd have to say that the whole time I've been here it's all been brewing – as I've slowed down, rested and helped my friends – so that now, the writing spills out with much greater ease!
Fruits of my labor...
I am working on a book to encapsulate the work I've developed for many years – about creativity, the process of change and creative problem solving for any arena... the "how to" for empowering the process of change for much greater ease in life, work and all points in between! I wrote a first draft of this book more than two years ago, but it just wasn't quite time and it wasn’t quite ready... And NOW – it IS time and I am ready! So I’ve let go of the old and I'm allowing fresh material to pour forth on the page - as it wants to NOW - appropriate and aligned with the times... and this is all very good!
I'm very excited to share more systematically this work that’s been building for many years... the "artistry" I've developed for approaching life and work from a very different perspective, a very creative perspective, to empower the process of change that is naturally inherent in everything we know ~ to work with the process for endlessly creative solutions!
I hope you will stand by ~ to watch, witness and partake, in this awesome and beautiful unfolding...
I’ll be sharing much more very soon!
Blessings Abound ~ May Grace be our Guide Everyday!
by Sharon L. Corsaro
Learn more at http://www.growing-gold.com/
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Change on the Brain
I'm working on this new book right now on creativity and change... and interestingly, I rarely look into what others are saying on a subject for I want to maintain the purity of my own voice, my own work and content so I tend to limit how much I'll search out other experts until I'm ready.
Well a funny thing happened this morning as I was ready to start writing. First, a piece of admin, I needed to find some information about a Teleseminar I had put on my calendar without enough detail... So I went about doing that, when in the process, I literally by shear accident of a computer glitch, stumbled onto the website of a very interesting expert on Leadership and Change - a woman I'd not known before. So I took some time to review her work and I really liked her energy and presentation style, so I thought I would share...
Sheila Murray Bethel, PhD, works with global organizations and audiences on leadership and change ~ She has a new book coming out very soon called "A New Breed of Leader" that looks like it might be very interesting for some folks ~ If you're interested, check her out at www.bethelinstitute.com.
And now... back to my writing!
by Sharon L. Corsaro
Learn more at www.growing-gold.com
Well a funny thing happened this morning as I was ready to start writing. First, a piece of admin, I needed to find some information about a Teleseminar I had put on my calendar without enough detail... So I went about doing that, when in the process, I literally by shear accident of a computer glitch, stumbled onto the website of a very interesting expert on Leadership and Change - a woman I'd not known before. So I took some time to review her work and I really liked her energy and presentation style, so I thought I would share...
Sheila Murray Bethel, PhD, works with global organizations and audiences on leadership and change ~ She has a new book coming out very soon called "A New Breed of Leader" that looks like it might be very interesting for some folks ~ If you're interested, check her out at www.bethelinstitute.com.
And now... back to my writing!
by Sharon L. Corsaro
Learn more at www.growing-gold.com
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Free
Sharing this little something that came spilling out when I sat down to write on the book yesterday... Funny, as I read this again now and get to the bottom, it makes me think of a news clip I saw the other day, where people were talking about the economy, and one young man said something like "well, I'm just having more sex, cuz, it's free and what else is there to do anyway?"... I'm thinking... he just might have a point there!
Being scared
Running cold
Fast
Moving so fast
Slow down
Just slow down
Turn so quickly
Don’t forget
The good things in life
ARE
Free
When I wrote the above, it came out of nowhere and actually made me think - really it's true... the good things in life ARE free... like nature's beauty, smiles on the street, a friendly gesture, love from above... and perhaps it's time to realize that truth! The funny clip about the young man on the news came to me as I was posting this here... cuz ya know... there's always that too!
Hm....
by Sharon L. Corsaro
Learn more at http://www.growing-gold.com/
Monday, February 23, 2009
Into the Ice Box?
Nothing like a good deep freeze to get the creative juices flowing...
"Huh?" you say... "isn't that a bit counter intuitive?"
Yes! Though “flow” might seem more likely in warm waters, for me, it is different. I love the cold far north... So I am off to get some work done! Working away on the new book, recordings to come and even more interactive fun... and all that coming from the frozen north!
There’s something strangely comforting and productive for me in tucking away in a barren place where there’s almost NO people… for deep connection to the land, the spirit of place and far reaching roots that seem able to stretch round the globe if I choose. It’s the spirit of Denali this time… the mighty largest of mountains in
And with the brilliance of the internet and cell phones, I'm still just an ear shot away by phone and email – even better than in LA – I’m always eager to connect! I’ll be here for a time 'til the work is done, before the great spring melt comes, so please feel free to reach out anytime ~ even to just say hello!
Signing off for the moment, with blessings from the shadows of Mt McKinley in the Great White North where the night sky lights up like a Christmas tree when the spirit of the north sings her praises!
Much more to come...
Learn more at http://www.growing-gold.com/
Saturday, February 7, 2009
No Going Back
(an excerpt on witnessing the "changing tides in life")
I realize today as I revisit this place that I lived a full seven years ago – that there really is no going back.
What is here now is a different set of circumstances, different relationships, different perspectives, hopes and dreams, different people… And even if they were the very same individuals - taken like a snap shot seven years later - there still are so many life circumstances – heaps of life experience – that shape us continually into being the "who and what we are" that the passage of time itself simply creates new waves, new wrinkles in the fabric of our persons… and so if only for that, it would seem that simply the passage of time itself creates change.
We each change over time, and therefore the collective of "the we" also changes. We cannot go back when we have passed through time… we can revisit the same physical place, even with the same physical people, but still, there can be no going back.
Which leads me to appreciating the precious times we have - the eras in our lives - when we have certain relationships in place, nice routines, or rhythm - and that when we have a good rhythm going on in our lives, in our circles, surroundings, circumstances - when things are humming along – it is in those times that we might rejoice... for there is a harmony occurring...
There is a rhythm that has come into our time… a synchronicity, a beauty, a fluid flow for what’s going on that is a good thing… that is smooth and sweet… and should be honored, acknowledged, recognized for its beauty - like noticing a lovely rose or beautiful sunset…
There are times in our lives, when it is simply right to notice… the beauty of the era… the "moment" of life we are living… for the grace it presents… for the flow it presents… for the ease that is present... perhaps in simply knowing we are loved, joyful, harnessed with food and housing and all needs met… There is a time to acknowledge… the beauty, the rhythm, to honor when we find it is present. Even when we do not know how things will go next… for we never really know how things will go next at any time, as things are always changing.
There are times when it's appropriate to honor and recognize the beauty of our life… the greatness of the people and times… even if we always think it should be better, for the times will always change… things will be different again, as the ebs and flows of a lifetime always move on... and things just won’t be the same anymore.
Things are always in the midst of change… and so - we've got to see when it is good – and say Thanks!
I'm grateful for the times of ease... and more than anything, for the times of peaceful people!
Thanks!
by Sharon L. Corsaro
Learn more at www.growing-gold.com
I realize today as I revisit this place that I lived a full seven years ago – that there really is no going back.
What is here now is a different set of circumstances, different relationships, different perspectives, hopes and dreams, different people… And even if they were the very same individuals - taken like a snap shot seven years later - there still are so many life circumstances – heaps of life experience – that shape us continually into being the "who and what we are" that the passage of time itself simply creates new waves, new wrinkles in the fabric of our persons… and so if only for that, it would seem that simply the passage of time itself creates change.
We each change over time, and therefore the collective of "the we" also changes. We cannot go back when we have passed through time… we can revisit the same physical place, even with the same physical people, but still, there can be no going back.
Which leads me to appreciating the precious times we have - the eras in our lives - when we have certain relationships in place, nice routines, or rhythm - and that when we have a good rhythm going on in our lives, in our circles, surroundings, circumstances - when things are humming along – it is in those times that we might rejoice... for there is a harmony occurring...
There is a rhythm that has come into our time… a synchronicity, a beauty, a fluid flow for what’s going on that is a good thing… that is smooth and sweet… and should be honored, acknowledged, recognized for its beauty - like noticing a lovely rose or beautiful sunset…
There are times in our lives, when it is simply right to notice… the beauty of the era… the "moment" of life we are living… for the grace it presents… for the flow it presents… for the ease that is present... perhaps in simply knowing we are loved, joyful, harnessed with food and housing and all needs met… There is a time to acknowledge… the beauty, the rhythm, to honor when we find it is present. Even when we do not know how things will go next… for we never really know how things will go next at any time, as things are always changing.
There are times when it's appropriate to honor and recognize the beauty of our life… the greatness of the people and times… even if we always think it should be better, for the times will always change… things will be different again, as the ebs and flows of a lifetime always move on... and things just won’t be the same anymore.
Things are always in the midst of change… and so - we've got to see when it is good – and say Thanks!
I'm grateful for the times of ease... and more than anything, for the times of peaceful people!
Thanks!
by Sharon L. Corsaro
Learn more at www.growing-gold.com
Monday, February 2, 2009
Only in Alaska...
(this one actually has a tune to it... so you can use your imagination!)
Shared my life with a friend today…
Told him a moose came to say hello,
She had a baby and they both were good
Then they wandered away in the dark…
I shared my life with a friend today,
Found that he also didn’t know
That the owl that came by just to say hello
Brought a friend - and he said,
They were two
I shared my life with a friend today,
And I told him that I’d found a place
Where the weather would drop into freezing cold
20 below last time I had looked
I shared my life with a friend today and he told me
I have to take pictures too...
I said hadn’t thought of it, too absorbed in the moment…
He said better think of it YOU.
I shared my life with a friend today,
We talked and we laughed at what wildness grew
In the lands of Alaska
Where volcanoes swell to a rumble, just down the road…
Earth shook the first morning I woke in her hands…
When later I saw a wolf walking cross the land…
I shared my life with a friend today…
We laughed and we grew to know more…
I shared my life with a friend today,
And there,
We decided
To stay.
And there we decided…. To stay.
by Sharon L. Corsaro
Learn more at http://www.growing-gold.com/
Shared my life with a friend today…
Told him a moose came to say hello,
She had a baby and they both were good
Then they wandered away in the dark…
I shared my life with a friend today,
Found that he also didn’t know
That the owl that came by just to say hello
Brought a friend - and he said,
They were two
I shared my life with a friend today,
And I told him that I’d found a place
Where the weather would drop into freezing cold
20 below last time I had looked
I shared my life with a friend today and he told me
I have to take pictures too...
I said hadn’t thought of it, too absorbed in the moment…
He said better think of it YOU.
I shared my life with a friend today,
We talked and we laughed at what wildness grew
In the lands of Alaska
Where volcanoes swell to a rumble, just down the road…
Earth shook the first morning I woke in her hands…
When later I saw a wolf walking cross the land…
I shared my life with a friend today…
We laughed and we grew to know more…
I shared my life with a friend today,
And there,
We decided
To stay.
And there we decided…. To stay.
by Sharon L. Corsaro
Learn more at http://www.growing-gold.com/
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