The Pagan Arts- Guest Blogs!

Greetings, readers! You'll be thrilled to know that I am working with Alane Brown, of The Pagan Arts, to further explore different aspects of spirituality and creative soul-work. To that end, I am contributing regular articles to her website. Please visit The Pagan Arts online at:

http://thepaganarts.com/

This site is a wonderful resource for Pagan spirituality, music, magick, art, and more. Much love to Alane for starting this amazing website, and giving me this opportunity to share my work with her readers!

The Hitchhiker: An Unlikely Love Story- New Page!

I recently created a new page just for my novel, "The Hitchhiker: An Unlikely Love Story." It will appear there in a new format- one document, rather than a series of posts- I anticipate that readers will enjoy it more than ever. The entire manuscript will eventually appear here in full; I've gotten a great start already, and added some new material- only available on the "Hitchhiker" page- to entice readers to check it out!

Jumping Fences

What holds you back from reaching for your dreams? What stops you, trips you up? What is fencing in your creative work, trapping it within a too-tiny space?

Take a closer look at this fence. It's old and rickety- it could fall down any second. All it needs is one swift kick! Jump the fences, or knock them down- don't let anything keep you from achieving your highest potential.

Desert Medicine...

As I prepare for a retreat in the desert with my sisters, I reflect on the healing energy of the desert, which simply is and so simply gives you the space to be, just as you are, imperfect, ready or not, in this moment.

If I could give you one thing to take away with you today, it would be the peace of sitting around a campfire with a family of friends, singing at the moon and watching the sparks spiral up into the night sky. If you could write from this present, open-hearted state, how would it change your work?

Go to the desert and pray; write; dance with the coyotes and fly with the raven.

Hello Fellow Art Lovers! Hope you can join me at the Ferocious Feelings show on the 24th. Looks like it will be a great event- and a lot of fun! I will be displaying four of my creative journals; each is a unique work of art, and a perfect container for YOUR ferocious feelings! I start with a blank journal or sketchbook and collage the front and back covers; then add writing prompts, inspirational quotes, or whatever else strikes my fancy. Come check it out!

The most exciting aspect of the show for me is that I will be doing live writing in front of a crowd, and may have a chance to read my work as well. I'll unleash my own ferocious inner writer, and supply an adoring public with red-hot writing on the spot, in the best improv tradition. See you there!!!

Lushly, Juicily Yours,

Molly Childers

Creativity- Blossom and Bloom!

Hollyhock Bud

Photograph by Charles Childers

This time of year is rich with wildflowers and rain. I plucked this hollyhock bud from a bush taller than I am, at nearby Haviland Lake. I wanted to share this picture with you today to remind you that all creative projects start as a seed; my new story, "A Phone Call," which you'll soon be seeing here, is a bud not yet unfurled. I have planted the seed; the idea is growing, but I haven't yet committed it to paper.

Given sunshine and love and plenty of water, the dream-seeds you plant today will thrive in their own time. Take the time to nurture one of your budding projects with a little sun, fresh water, or whatever it needs to grow. Let the light of your inspiration shine down! Let the Fount of the Muses flow freely over all the flowers in your creative garden! Dance barefoot in the mud and feel it squish between your toes! Sow your dream-seeds wherever you find fertile ground.