This photo emerged from obscurity on the weekend. It wasn’t exactly lost, but it hadn’t seen the light of day for many years. The original is on a 36 x 24 millimetre piece of slide film that had been packed away for almost fifteen years.Saturday was the day I finally decided to tackle a box that … [Read more...] about Hope for Renewal
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Creativity is where inspiration meets self expression.
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Perspective Shift
I am patiently waiting for snow to return to Toronto.That sentence ⬆️ might be the most surprising sequence of words I’ve ever strung together.This patient waiting thing is a seismic shift. Most years I dream about the number of ways I can escape the snow and cold. With nowhere to go but … [Read more...] about Perspective Shift
Create the Space
For the past couple of years - OK, decades - I’ve been driven by a desire to show up in the world in a different way. My shift from coach back to creative was well under way long before I became consciously aware of it in late 2019. It took 2020 to create the space.It’s taken time and commitment … [Read more...] about Create the Space
Begin (Again)
As you may know, I joined Seth Godin’s first run of The Creative’s Workshop last year because I wanted to start a daily blogging practice. Once I started writing every day in the workshop, my memoir began to come to life.In typical Laura fashion, I gave it all. Piling on the new to-dos, I wrote … [Read more...] about Begin (Again)
Selective Focus
With selective focus, I can cut out the extraneous junk and keep focused on what’s most important.Any other Thanksgiving Monday I would have recuperating from hosting our family for dinner. But not this year. It’s 2020.At the beginning of the month I started an October creative project on … [Read more...] about Selective Focus