The key. Everyone is looking for this key. Do you know who holds it? Whose hands it has always been entrusted to? The artists. The writers, the poets. The creative. Across the centuries creators have held the key to the imagination. And the key to the imagination is the key to everything. Writers imagine whole worlds. Poets catch verse out of thin air. Artists shut their eyes and see an apple in their mind. Spots, colors, size, wormholes; every part of that specific imaginary apple. And if you can do that, conjure up an apple in your mind, imagine what type of world you could create- if you put your mind to it. It all starts with you. Internally. In your imagination. So let your vision flow forth, into our vision starved world and begin the most human and divine experiment possible. Creation. It’s what you came for.

Janet Balboa (#janetbalboa) is an artist, writer and teacher living in the Chicago suburbs. Read more
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⚘️Thursday Mandala Class 10:30-12
Finding the shapes and patterns hidden in a blank piece of paper...engaging artistically with shadow work helps to identify what it is that might need attention, awareness and care within us.
Work in Progress.
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Thursday Mandala Class.
Happy Full Moon!
This old, beautifully carved Buddha sat in my grandparents living room for decades. A mysterious, dark object at complete odds with its suburban Bright White French Provincial 1960's living room.
A tiny gremlin or two snuck in, at the very end... as gremlins do.