Tag: creativity
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Input CliftonStrength: The Joy of Collecting Pieces That Matter
The Input CliftonStrength isn’t hoarding—it’s building a reservoir. As a writer who collects books, ideas, and half-formed concepts, I’ve learned to treat gathering as fuel, not clutter. Here’s how honoring that instinct changed everything.
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Meditation for Creativity
Meditation isn’t just for stress relief—it’s a powerful tool for unlocking creativity. Discover how five meditation practices can quiet your mind, enhance focus, and open the door to inspired thinking.
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Intimate Acts of Writers: Sharing Naked Creativity
Do you remember sharing your first venture into creativity? What that was like? Who shared it with you? Their response to you? Often the first venture into the intimacy of creativity happens as children, and most often with our primitive artwork. It is an encounter with Deity that often is never lost, but as children,…
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How a Pagan Goes to Church: September Spiders
This week in the Cathedral of Nature…. Here in hot, sunny Florida, the temp has suddenly cooled. This is why I love September and October so much–that feeling of abundance and harvest, yet the stifling heat is gone. September seems to be full of spiders! Somehow, I always associate September with hurricanes, golden orb spiders,…
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Radical Ideas vs Bureaucracy… Guess Which Wins?
I’ve come to terms with the fact that my best asset to any organization is my ability to generate ideas. I have tons of ideas. Wild ideas. Crazy ideas. Creative ideas. Never-done-before ideas. Legal but can-you-really-do-that ideas. Subversive ideas. Analytically supported ideas. “Effin’ Brilliant” ideas as some people have called them. It’s the way my…
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The Best Aphrodisiac
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree and Rising. For me, creativity is the best aphrodisiac. I finished a major project, got a little sleep, and then found myself thinking, hmmm, time to socialize? Any men worth striking up a conversation with? From the Bookshelf Vertex, Anti-Vertex, and the Fated Path in Astrology…
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Keeping the Fifth House Locked Down
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Love in the Third Degree. It’s said that certain things belong to the different “houses,” or areas of your life. In the Fifth House, those things include romance, children, finances, creativity, and work you love (sort of like your creative children). This is a particular house that I…
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Defining Play
Okay, I’m playing. Yes, just playing. I spent the day working on projects and the evening working on the house while listening to podcasts about interesting archeological discoveries and I decided to take a break and just…play. I decided to toy with the idea of what I like about certain pairs of shoes I own,…
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What’s Romantic?
“What’s the most romantic thing a man can give a woman?” one of the married men in my office asks, contemplating a major upcoming anniversary in his homelife. “Flowers? Candy? Dinner out?” None of the above, I think. From the Bookshelf A Reverence for Trees — an emotional short read about love, healing, and a…
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That’s the Way I Like It
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Freedom. I am in love with this feeling, the fire of creativity coursing through my veins. I can’t remember when it’s been so strong or so furious or so insistent. It’s said that we find moments of immortality, that we defy death, in the god-moments…
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My Mom Has Sex Hair
My taste in clothes hasn’t changed, not really, since I was 19. I remember once in college, alone in my apartment with Roxy Music playing “Avalon” in the background, a glass of red wine in one hand, candles burning, and me barefoot and singing to the record and wearing a long burgundy velvet dress. And…
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Don’t Create Rooms Full of Anger and Hurt
Home office photos copyrighted by Lorna Tedder; all rights reserved. I have a spare bedroom I’m painting and refurbishing so that it’ll make a beautiful guest room when my daughter is home from college or has friends over. I didn’t finish it earlier in the year when I was too busy, but I’ve had plenty…
