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	<description>What Would You Love To Create?</description>
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		<title>Paper Planes And A River Of Stones</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Rowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Here we are in the new year and I&#8217;m taking a new direction in my Ephemeral Adventurer series of paintings. I&#8217;m experimenting with larger paintings on canvas and trying a few designs without the maps. This one is called &#8216;Fly With Me&#8217; and it&#8217;s the first of the new batch. I&#8217;m going to order [...]


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		<title>Noticing Mondays: Point Of Contact</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 02:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Rowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Noticing Mondays is a new weekly event on this blog where I discuss my mindful writing practice of ‘noticing’ and encourage you to join in. &#160; ******* &#160; What&#8217;s noticing? Well, here&#8217;s the twitter version: &#160; Comfy? Good. Start writing whatever you&#8217;re experiencing right now: sights/sounds/feelings/thoughts/etc. Stuck? Write &#8216;noticing &#8230;&#8217; continue &#160; &#160; And this [...]


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		<title>Whole Life Creativity: The Art of Noticing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Rowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you feel when you face a blank page? Some days it’s not a big deal for me, some days it’s difficult. When it’s good, writing and creating is like something fresh and vivid pouring itself onto the paper. Then there’s the not-good times. The block shows up first in my body&#8211;as heat, as [...]


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		<title>Imagine This</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 23:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Rowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You are sitting at your desk You are sitting at your desk staring at a blank page in your notebook You are sitting at your desk staring at a blank page in your notebook and this blank page stares back up You are sitting at your desk staring at a blank page in your notebook [...]


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		<title>The Tea House Writing Sessions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Rowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I used to sit regularly at a Buddhist center back in Australia. One of the members there was a student of the Japanese tea ceremony and she used to hold a tea ceremony for us once a month. The center was in the inner suburbs of Sydney, and we sat on our meditation cushions [...]


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		<title>Cicada Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 00:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Rowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A cicada shell; it sang itself utterly away. Basho (trans.R.H.Blyth) Late Spring in Australia is when the air swells with the piercing cry of countless cicadas. It feels like the ground, the gum trees, and the sky are all vibrating with them. The sound is incessant, to the point where it almost distorts your sense [...]


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		<title>Muse Missives: Invitation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Rowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Muse, You are cordially invited to attend our upcoming creative endeavour. It will be a simple affair with moderate amounts of paint, paper, string, sweet drinks, balloons, and birdsong provided. We have taken the liberty of placing a sturdy chair beside the apple tree. We can also organize a faux-Classical Greek fountain if needed. [...]


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		<title>5 Unhelpful Questions For Your New Creative Project</title>
		<link>http://creativechai.com/5-unhelpful-questions-for-your-new-creative-project</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Rowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the start of a new creative project do you ever find yourself facing down a barrage of shaky thoughts designed to prevent you from even beginning? I certainly do. Sometimes the starting line can feel like the finishing line where, just as one last burst of energy is required to break the tape at [...]


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		<title>Learning To Rest Is Learning To Trust Myself</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Rowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a panic to create, I often find myself rummaging through my sketchbooks, journals, art books, creativity books, thinking books&#8211;any damn books. Searching for some jumping point for a piece of art or a blog post. I&#8217;ve just been doing that. But here&#8217;s a funny thing. This post didn&#8217;t start to happen until I just [...]


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		<title>Illustration Friday: Blur</title>
		<link>http://creativechai.com/illustration-friday-blur</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Rowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[His life is blurred. The people walking by are made of gauze, and lost. They make swishing noises when they move and he can&#8217;t be sure if something parts as they pass through, or if they part as something passes through them. Somedays, in sharp relief against the soft edges, a moment stands out like [...]


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