Saturday was simply wonderful. I think one underestimates the power of time spent just unpacking the humdrum of our life and investing it with creative meaning. It's a powerful thing to be able to express in color and unformed word - but word none the less - the power of our hidden resources. We all have artistic abilities that remain hidden because life/time or circumstance just cannot allow us to access them. Saturday was the last class of the first MoJo Module. We summarized, drew the major lessons from the module on Accessing Creativity, finished the paintings, drew the workbooks together and completed an artists book, titled The Self Portrait and the Seed.  We cannot (me included!) wait to begin the next Module, scheduled for 9 March D.V. at the MoJo Studio. 






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