“I don’t dream, I make plans.” People sometimes says this to me, but they don’t understand the role of dreams in our lives, and what we need to do first. Continue Reading
Creative Sparks
Real tools and firelight for artists and dreamers to create inspired lives
You Can’t Always Get What You Want, But. . .
Following your dreams is something you are called to do. Each of us is called to follow our heart’s dreams. Yet following your dreams is often approached in a totally wrong-headed way. A way that produces a great deal of suffering. Your dreams are here to lead you on your heart path. Each of us […] Continue Reading
Your Breakthrough Dream Part II
In my last post, I shared with you the powerful tool of the Breakthrough Dream as a way of co-creating the life your heart desires. If you missed that post, click here to read it first. Today, we continue with part II. In this post we explore how to discover your Breakthrough Dream, types of […] Continue Reading
The Breakthrough Dream
The Breakthrough Dream: A Radical Tool To Create the Life Your Heart Desires In my Creative Life Coaching and in my Living Your Dreams class, I share a potent tool that brings profound focus, momentum and satisfaction to creating your heart’s desires. That tool is called the Breakthrough Dream. The Breakthrough Dream is a dream […] Continue Reading
World as Friend: A Radical Shift
I wrote this post a couple of years ago after having a startling experience. I never shared the post at the time. It seems particularly relevant now in the wake of my poetry book recently being accepted by a publisher. I hope it inspires you. “You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t […] Continue Reading
To Authorize or To Abandon?
To Authorize or To Abandon: How Do You Know When a Work of Art Is Done? How do you know when your poem or novel, your painting, symphony or dance piece is finished and ready to be shared with others? How do you know when it is time to stop revising, tinkering, perfecting and let […] Continue Reading
My Big News! A Dream Come True
I am over the moon! My full-length book of poems, Fierce Aria, has been accepted for publication by Finishing Line Press. Whoo! The book will come out next Spring, but pre-sales will start soon. I started work on assembling this manuscript back at the start of 2010. It’s been a long and winding road. Loads […] Continue Reading
Dreaming in the Age of Uncertainty
How do we follow our heart’s dreams in this age of imminent destruction of our planet, our familiar ways of living? Why even dream in such a dire, uncertain time? What kinds of dreams? And how? Continue Reading
Singing Our Way Home
One of the tenderest and most beautiful moments in my mother’s final days was the night before she died. My brother Josh sat singing to her for hours as she lay breathing raggedly, eyes closed, sunk deep into herself. And one by one all of my siblings and me, our spouses who were there, two […] Continue Reading
Living Life as Prayer
Sometime this past year I set the intention to live my life as prayer. I have carried this intention, less clearly named, for most of my life. I remember a summer when I was around 15 or 16 that a young homeless man granted me three magic wishes. I wished to become a great musician, […] Continue Reading
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Thanks, Max… This means a lot to me right now…
Thank you, Buffy.
I really love what you’ve shared Max. It feels very meaningful to me as well!
Thank you for letting me know!