Hi ,

Blanche Baldwin has decided to critique paintings. There's a back story to that that will be revealed soon, but she has this first critique of Jill Badonsky's painting: Five Women in the Rain. 

You can see the painting in the title of this episode but also at Substack where the items in the Museum Gift Shop are available for reading. 

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Blanche is my alter ego. She’s from New Jersey. I was born in New Jersey but we left when I was five. Nothing to do with New Jersey - having to do with a mother who wanted to live in Florida. Anyway, I find Blanche refreshing. She says things like they are. She had some thoughts about art.

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Sometimes ya just gotta go for the humor without an inspirational message... and maybe that's the message. Laughter is required to get through this disturbing time we are required to endure. 

I had fun writing this. I hope you have fun listening to it. 

Artwork by Tony Thompson

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Five rules to Arguing Politely and Ineffectively - Dedicated to Dolly Parton

There are rules to quarreling in the South. Arguments there are slow-cooked, sugar-glazed, and served with a side of pecan pie you didn’t really ask for.. 

First rule: Use a Sweetness You Don’t Really Mean … Most people know the Swiss Army knife of Southern disagreement is “Bless your heart”. It can mean either Hon, that is a worthy contribution to this discussion, or I feel sorry how profoundly misguided you are. You are Pathetic 
 For example:
 “I hear what you’re saying about liberals… bless your heart.” Translation: I do not hear what you’re saying, but I encourage you to continue being incorrect in a way that will eventually exhaust you because I’m not giving you anything to push back on.

#2: Smile Like You’re Being Photographed for the Church Directory …The smile is essential. It should say: I am kind, I am composed, and I am not listening to a single word you're saying, I am thinking about how you have a barbeque stain on your white shirt and bless your heart, it probably won’t come out.

#3: Disagree Indirectly, Preferably Through a Third Object …Direct confrontation is considered uncouth. Instead, go in this direction: My cousin tried that once and, well… we don’t really talk about it anymore.”  Or: “I’ve noticed some people confuse ‘feeling strongly’ with ‘being informed.’”

Rule #4: Offer Food as a Distraction  …
Mid-argument, just say: “Have you eaten?” This isn’t a question. It’s a ploy. If they say yes, you insist anyway. “Well let’s get you something else.”  If they say no, just know that nothing undermines a firm opinion like a plate of warm cornbread slathered in butter and honey.   

Rule #5: Escalate Courtesy not Volume ..As tensions rise, so must your politeness. Fir instance: “Well, isn’t that just so interesting, Evelyn.”“You have clearly given this a lot of thought.” Bless your heart, Aren’t you just the smart one here.” Each phrase should be served like tea that has too much sugar in it.

Final Thought …Polite arguing is not about changing minds. It’s about preserving the relationship while quietly rearranging your internal seating chart. Some people get to sit right by you, and others will be seated in the garage next to the water heater.

With these rules, you won’t win the debate. Who cares, if you maintain politeness, you will be invited back and in the South, that’s all that matters. 

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In this week's Substack article, The First Church of Waffle House, an after hours breakfast dive is a place to go just to be yourself.

Enjoy a little reverie in a different atmosphere of the imagination.

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Hi,

Here is an article I wrote in honor of David Hockney. This guided relaxation takes us on a meditative ride with him.

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We are tiny dots in a vast, beautiful masterpiece, each small on our own, yet essential to something far greater than we can see. Wherever we land, we add depth, color, and purpose to the whole.

This special episode is a guided meditation that you can listen to. Something that reminds us that art, color, and imagination can transport us away from the difficulties of the world, if just for a little bit of time, to nourish, revive, and inspire us.

Know that, you can return to that green dot anytime (or any work of art that gives you a break from the chaos). Art is an antidote to the craziness.

Best wishes,

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My alter-ego ,Jilly Ann, seems to want to tell more stories these days. 

I hope you enjoy this one about Kudzu. It's amazing what an invasive strain of flora can tell ya in terms of how to live your life.

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I had a hankerin' to do another episode with a Southern accent, I suppose because it feels like coming home to a part of myself I didn’t realize I’d been missing. It feels like returning to a world where differences involved accents and not ammunition. I think I slip back into it from time to time just to remember there was a time that even though we didn’t pronounce our vowels the same way, we still knew how to love each other.

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The script to this podcast is at The Muse is In on Substack 

Bhutanese philosophy views death not as a tragic end, but as a natural transition, a continuation of life, and an integral part of existence. 

Back in 2019, an MRI indicated that I had an aneursym in my ascending aorta. Yikes, I thought. I must be on my way out. I wrote a letter to all my people telling them I loved them and … see ya. 

Well, here I am almost seven years later. Turns out it’s just hanging out there to remind me how temporary life is. I had that same wake-up call many people describe after near-death experiences where the ephemeral nature of life makes you much more present to the incredible blessing of being alive. I got busy living deeper and thinking about death in a more friendly light.

I pondered the question, what if dying is something much better than we think? What if what happens after you die… is what you believe will happen to you? And if that notion is preposterous to you, what would it hurt to believe in it anyway? It relaxes me, which inspired this podcast.  Complete with a wild parrot honing in.

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Howdy,

[read with Southern accent] 

This here little story is just an antidote to the craziness in world out thar. I wrote and recorded it in hopes that it would distract you from the chaos, but also help you find something soft to sink into.

In Neighborliness~

Jill Badonsky

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Meditation, especially guided ones, help me through this difficult time, and any difficult time. Thought this one might help you. 

I posted one earlier, but this week is pretty much a sh#tshow, so just in case you need another one .. here it is. 

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Hi There,

Hi, It's Jill Badonsky. A Muse's Daydream is back with meditations, creative inspiration, and probably, some humor. This is a meditation I published on Substack, a place you can follow my writing and be notified of new recording.

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Here's the transcript:https://jillbadonsky.substack.com/p/guided-meditation-for-broken-time

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Hi There, Jill Here,

This episode is a rerun of humorous suggestions of how to deal with family during the holidays. It gives a number of tongue-in -cheek and whipped-cream-in-mouth ways to deal with a dysfunctional family at the holidays... or really, anytime.

Sometimes a little humor and perspective around the holidays is called for.  I know it was for me.

Have a beautiful holiday season.
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Hi this is Jill Badonsky and this is a special episode of a Muse’s daydream.. reality version because it’s the holidays and holidays can be tough if you choose to spend it with a dysfunctional family. So this is; Dysfunctional Family Survival Guide for the Holidays

If you regress as soon as a family member gives you a funny look, if you’ve ever been known to throw mashed potatoes across the table when a food fight wasn’t on the agenda. If you think every year THIS will finally be the one where you will be the change you want to be but instead you turn into the gravy you want to see on the turkey

Here are a few creative survival tips gathered from extensive studies from the Muse is In laboratories where empirical results were extracted from millions of subjects all over the world.. I it made up.. I forget which. 

1. Pretend like you are spending the holiday with the family of a friend of yours instead of your own family . It can entertaining, provide distance and perhaps even seem entertaining.  Or along the same lines, make believe you are observing the sequel to August: Osage County. Remember the one where Julia Roberts repeatedly tosses the f-bomb at the pitiful mother, Meryl Streep. Just compare your family to that and if it’s worse, never mind.
   You could try wearing a disguise, you know one of those glasses with the big noses – but you must do it with a straight face.

2. Whenever a family member pushes one of, you know, those BUTTONS, saying THAT THING or behaving THAT WAY THAT MAKES YOU CRAZY and making you FORGET EVERY GAIN YOU'VE PAID FOR IN YEARS AND YEARS and YEARS of THERAPY, have an automatic response ready. Suggestions:

            A. Say to yourself, "Well, bless their heart!"  (Southern accents are particularly helpful here.).

B. Think to yourself, "My bodyguard will be here in a minute." Imagine handing your feelings over to your bodyguard and payIng no mind to the offending party - cuz things are taken care of. 

C. If you can't avoid incoming verbal torment, just brush it off your body as if it were cat hair, cookie crumbs, or gnats.  (Use a lint roller for special effect and even wave it while the offending party is talking as if catching the debri before it lands on your mild demeanor).

D. While they pushing all your sensitive buttons , stare just above their eyes in the  middle of their forehead with a blank expression on your face. Stay in that position no less than 15 minutes after they've finished.

E. When they are speaking, DUCK down as if allowing their verbal ickiness to simply fly over you and sparing you of any reason to be anything other than Dolly Parton-like or if you are a male, George Clooney-like or maybe Jon Hamm like or at the very least, Tom Hanks

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Hi...

I'm back with the podcast to be a catalyst for creative escape and inspiration. If you're still listening, I'm grateful. I'm not a consistent person except in the department of creativity. RIght now, we need it more than ever. May this poem and the accompanying music and effects lend some calm and motivation to do your own art and writing.

It's a great time to be trained as a creativity coach not only to take your own creativity deeper, but to be a lighthouse for others searching for that shore.
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Narration

I held blue captive yesterday in a large plastic tub from Target.
 The sky went white, the ocean orange, the blue jay red.
 I took blue out and wrapped it around me to feel how blue could feel.
 I felt the history of the sky. 
 I knew its gravity, its view, its preoccupations, its ubiquity. 
 I knew its limitlessness. Its grasp of orbit.

I tasted blue, it tasted grape. 
 It smelled of delphinium and pie and the sea.
 I spun it in the air, blue turned to cadmium, azure, denim, satin, velvet.
 It turned green in the sun's yellow and midnight as the moon turned its back.

Then I set blue free.
 It seeped out of the tub, out my door and in grand ceremony, at once filled bird and sky and ocean and … 

songs about loves lost.

And then I wrote this:

Sometimes I feel like I’m held captive  -  

Then I remember  if I want I can seep of out my tub, out the door and in grand ceremony,   fill the sky, like blue.  A lot like poetry and prose and art, music and dance and then maybe have some pie. And so can you. Ruthlessly dedicate yourself to your passion.

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The Muse's Daydream is back. I've been spending time working on a card of decks... no wait, a deck of cards. I explain about them, read two of them, and invite you to buy a deck in case you want creativity to be easier for you. Also a Zoom workshop is included as part of the purchase.

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This episode is a momentary departure from the usual frivolity for reverie of the inspiration, relaxation, and the possibility of creativity.
Script and Poster of the poem is available to purchase at this link.
"Don't let the future hold your happiness hostage."  ~Sam Harris

THe Workshop: came and went
 
 

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I’ve spent a career teaching how self-judgment works against us in the creative process. 

I’ve spent a lifetime dealing with my own harsh self-judgment, so I have the requisite compassion to understand its costs.

Once we’ve made it to a place of near completion, there is time is to be discerning, but the process requires license to start out crappy, make mistakes, and tolerate not being able to bring into reality the exact thing we envisioned. We need that freedom for  the enjoyment that leads to the best end products. 

The inner critic comes with being human, but it is vital to our success and enjoyment as creative people to persist in spite of it.  In this regard, the creative process is an opportunity to create a better, more resilient self as we learn to be there for ourselves with compassion.

Listening to Amanda Knox in her series called Resilience on Sam Harris’s podcast, Waking Up, is the first time I heard the following logic reached as she contemplated the self-judgment she was feeling while being incarcerated four years for a murder she did not commit:

 “Berating yourself for being stupid does not make you smarter.” 

Along the same lines, berating yourself for:

•  not feeling good enough at your passion 
• not being the same as other artists or writers you see on social media
• procrastination
• resistance
• hesitance
• anything else you're struggling with

 ... does not improve the quality of your work or to get you to show up for creative pursuits.. 

It’s what we naturally do because that’s how evolution wired us, but it’s why we need to be ready to shift our thinking when we notice we are ineffectively judging ourselves again.  

 Van Gogh had such a strategy.  Here’s the script to my 2021 episode of A Muse’s Moment to go along as you listen to the narration and music.

“If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.” Vincent Van Gogh said that. In less than 10 years, he painted almost 900 paintings – the voice that told him he couldn’t paint… didn’t have a chance.

 Now picture yourself fueled by this sentiment.  
 Think this: There’s something I want to do but I’m not feeling that good at it, or, I feel others are better than I am, or that it’s not something I can ever do, or I’m too old, I don’t know where to start .. but by all means I’m going to do it …. paint, write, dance, speak, build my business,  and head toward that creative north star that is calling my name anyway. 

 I don’t need to be perfect, but I do need to find enjoyment along the way … with patience and curiosity.. because the more I allow for the process to be enjoyable, the more I will, by all means doggedly stay with the process until the doubting voices pull up a chair beside me and start giving me ideas instead of discouragement. Or maybe they could write a critique for tuna casserole.

If you hear a voice within you say you cannot be creative in any way say: Thanks for sharing…I’m doing it anyway. 
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Sometimes a little humor and perspective around the holidays is called for.  I know it was for me. This episode gives a number of tongue-in -cheek and whipped-cream-in-mouth ways to deal with a dysfunctional family at the holidays... or really, anytime.

Have a beautiful holiday season.
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Sometimes the undesirable and embarrassing parts of who we are make the best stories. 

Writing does that... it uses creativity to lift us out of self-judgment about our personal weaknesses and into comedy, healing or just an awareness of our common humanity. , 

I've brought one of those stories I'm particularly startled by, to sound effects, music, and uncut candor on this episode.

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If creativity is a value of yours, you know  it can make every part of your existence better.  Conversely, when you don't get to it, you feel a kind of spiritual constipation and free-floating crankiness .  There's no doubt getting into a creative flow can be elusive, frustrating, or seemingly impossible. 

I've been there with the distractions, perfectionism, doubt, overwhelm, and resistance but I've also discovered ways to make it more of a priority in my life . It grounds me in my gifts and my relationship with myself makes living a whole lot more enjoyable.  And I've taught these "ways" to people for the last 20 years.

It helps to have a place to show up so the effort is made easier and the inspiration is designed. Talking About Creativity and The Underground Highway to Creative Results are two such places.

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If you've ever tried to record a podcast without the proper sound proofing it can be challenging. 
This episodes illustrated the frustrations I encounter with interruptions and how they can be good practice for resilience. 
The secret to happiness is also revealed.
 
Script

Making a podcast is challenging in many ways but can be a particularly frustrating when you don’t have the proper sound studio set up, meaning a separate room lined in egg grates, foam squares, marshmallow peeps, or whatever soundproof material you can get your hands on. You may be at the mercy of all the noises in your immediate vicinity and sometimes ones coming from your own body.

 Just when you think you are in your finest podcast moment, recording the most profound, ,  brilliant, hopefully helpful narrative in your life -- your cat plays with a bell toy, the leaf blower next door roars for 15 minutes, and i when it finishes, the leaf blower on the other side goes off, airplanes fly by, sirens sound off, dogs bark, dump trucks thunder down the street… things fall from the sky, satellites come weirdly close to the earth, the French national anthem is serenaded by random strangers, unidentifiable sounds come out of the wall sockets, someone throws a rock through your window, your souffle' explodes, your stomach growls, and your neighbor sticks his head in the window and says Hello (voicy)

 You may ask, Why not use a more soundproof studio? Or you may say loudly… GET A SOUNDPROOF STUDIO. It would save a lot of time, aggravation and trouble. My answer? Putting things off until conditions are just right is not the way I roll.   I like to do with what I got..My motto? ready-fire-aim! otherwise hesitation, researching, ordering, planning, constructing, testing, adjusting, decorating, the sound studio could steal the momentum. Plus it’s expensive and the cats are in possession of the spare bedroom.  So yes, I end up spending time pausing, editing, cursing, and rerecording because of the unexpected sounds … but in a way, it’s lesson in patience, practice to endure, to make the best of the situation as is, to   there’s a certain satisfaction in overcoming obstacles as insignificant as noises on a podcast because we all know life is filled with complications – and practice with the small ones can make us more effective with the bigger ones

So I suffer through having the sounds that end up on the reel but when the final recording comes out,  it’s as if they were never there, there’s just a merry sound track playing in the background and a friendly narration with no evidence of the insanity, , profanity, throwing of things has been cut out. No one listening to the final production knows the troubles I’ve known. It’s therapeutic to be able to manipulate reality like that. Therapeutic and satisfying – then I think of the things I might edit out of my life. Things I shouldn’t have bought, or said, clutter, cat hair, bad decisions, people who turn on you, sadness, irritability, chin hairs … but I don’t want to edit those things out except the chin hairs. What would I write about?  These are the grit of life, fodder for creative expression, metal waiting to alchemized to gold. They make the splendid moments splendider, the marvelous, marvelouser, the people who are on your side more treasured.   

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The Script :
I’ve always identified with Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, the ugly duckling story… maybe that’s why I don’t eat duck or why I should. 

I wasn’t exactly a swan born in a family of ducks, I was more like say, a penguin or a frog floating by on a lily pad. Point is, I didn’t belong with ducks especially deeply conservative ducks, not that there’s anything wrong with that, but I wasn’t, which made it a bit lonely.  I don’t think I’m alone in feeling lonely for this reason .

When you feel you don’t belong in your family, a strange thing happens because you’ve been imprinted with a I don’t-belong kind of radar because not belonging feels familiar so you may find yourself subconsciously gravitating toward places to feel you don’t belong because we like the familiar.   

Speaking of…  A few years ago, I thought about taking a hip-hop dance class.   My background is in ballet, but for some strange reason, I love hip hop music.     There was a class close by at a place called Culture shock.  

Signed up, got some shoes, and, I changed my mind. 

Yeah, too much of a … culture shock. I’m thinking there will be kids jumping and spinning and executing complicated choreography all in sequence and I have problems with the Macarena among friends  Hiphop would mean I’d feel klutzy, embarrassed, and possibly in need of hospitalization.   

So …  back to the Stairmaster with the penguins   

The hip hop desire didn’t want to go away though. But every time I thought about going, I imagined people lots younger than me with caps on backward, pants half-mast saying, “yo  “Yo.” I was overthinking it… I thought, so one day I just went.

When I got there, there were a bunch of young people with backward caps and pants half-mast, including the teacher.  But soccer moms and white college girls were there as well.  There was a woman at least five years older than me and another one in the first row, two moves behind everyone, so I thought yo, maybe I have a chance of fitting in.    

Then I looked in the mirror…  Everyone else’s head in the class ended at my shoulders.   In other words, I was in a troupe of stocky, shorter people, because hip-hop works best and looks best when you’re short and stocky. In the mirror’s reflection, at 5’9” my head looked like a giraffe in a jungle picture where the giraffe’s its head is awkwardly sticking up above the rest of the herd, and I thought… I’m in the wrong herd, I don’t fit in.  Or do I? The woman next to me looked up at me with a look on her face that said, “No, you don’t fit in”. I thought… I should go. 

But I stayed, despite the hip hugger mishap. I forgot was wearing waist high big girl panties and hip huggers.  I looked in the mirror and two inches of pink underwear were sticking out of the top of my hip black dance pants.    I turned pink too, I’m not sure why… but I left them that way.  They were like a billboard that said, I SHOULDN’T BE HERE.

Then, Miss Trina Lyons entered the room. Miss Trina Lyons was the hip-hop teacher who moved like a movie queen in the most self-confident style of breathtaking, beat-perfect-precision hip-hop I ever knew possible. She started leading a dance move where the herd was turning in a circle with arms in a stiff gangsta-tude swing.  In the mirror I saw that my ‘tude looked a lot like Marsha Brady with PMS.  I cracked a smile and one second later, Miss Trina announced to the class, “I don’t WANT nobody smilin’!  This

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William James, philosopher and psychologist observed,   “… when we reach the end of our days, our life experience will equal what we have paid attention to, whether by choice or default.” 

 I’m over 60., but I don’t care,.  I don’t choose to pay attention to my age most of the time “Age is only a number.” 

 There are occasional reminders that I’m not the number 20 or 30– Getting out of a chair after sitting for a while is interesting.

I don’t go to Denny’s at 4 in the morning, wear short skirts, somersault, anymore, but I don’t miss those things.  

I’d rather stay home and write than go to a party or a bar or anywhere there’s a crowd. 

 If our life experience equals what we have paid attention to, I want it to equal the way a paint brush can make the sun rise on a white piece of paper even if it’s four in the afternoon –  

I want it to equal a belly laugh, waltzing, watching a comet passing by in the night sky

the way dogs wiggle when they walk  

I want it to equal the rare thrill of successfully parallel parking on the first try

 I want my life experience to equal standing in the path of a wave that will roll to the shore whether you’re standing in its way or not, baptizing you with the cold shock of courage required to leave behind the comfort of being dry and warm in exchange for the sea enveloping you in her wild nature at dawn

I never want to take for granted dark chocolate covered almonds

the way people smile at you even when they don’t know you

the way you can burp a pickle jar to make it open easier

the liquid light that lingers on a raindrop lingering on a rose after a rain

a rose … period

the peace inside, that’s there no matter what 

 I never want to take for granted

the words table for two, please

the words thank you

the words.. I do..

 I’m recording this a month and a half since I said “I do”

 Someone asked, “Why do you feel you need to get married - you’re in your sixties?”   

I’m happy to answer.

 I don’t need to…I’ve learned I am enough alone. The reason is, I want to. 

I want to look into the eyes of the least annoying person in my world and say, “I could laugh with you for the rest of my life and not get tired of it” and hear him say, something like that back, I want have a long meaningful kiss with him right in front of a bunch of friends without worrying about grossing them out

I want to walk in a room of friends and they and applaud our  love. 

My heart …is also applauding, for the courage I mustered up to try again.  

 I want to eat white cake with strawberry frosting, take shoes off , dance, and feel like we are 17   …

17 is way too young to get married, 

But we do anyway… because … age is only a number

 Our  life experience can be more than our aches and pains, political divisions, worry a judgment, and your preoccupation with getting older – there are  so many things of wonder and love around us, but we default to the negative… we’ve got to go find the good stuff or pay attention to it, because most of them are right there now.

What are you paying attention to?

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Ever find yourself in a job where you don't recognize who you are anymore? "Sold your soul to the company store?" I did for 10 years. It made me cranky but ultimately gave me compassion, resilience, confidence, and the determination never to eat duck again... so to speak.

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This episode is about how moments in childhood predict who we are as adults including  jumping too soon into pools and relationships.   Everything's better with humor and creativity.

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We continue on this journey of  misguided  creative adventures  you may not want to try at home - adhd has it’s hazards, but stay tuned to A Muse’s Daydream, it also has its advantages.

This episode includes a home far far away I once lived in with the wrong person, Martha Stewart Christmas ornaments, a tow truck and a firetruck, hitting bottom both literally and figuratively and finding refuge in writing and art. 

It’s titled For Friction Reasons and is 100% true.

I'm teaching a Wild Abandon style of writing and art at Omega   October 1-6, 2023

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This  is a story that begins in the Miami sun with wobbly sailboats incarcerated in the straight lines drawn by a well-intending mom and ends with... wobbly sailboats sailing free. It highlights the advantage of perseverance which is a by-product of finding the joy in the process and not worrying how things look. There are advantages of being a perfectionist with ADHD. You may have read it before, I posted it earlier, but now it is a podcast with cameos by Morgan Freeman and Harrison Ford. :)

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Hi Listener,

If you've been in earshot of me randomly bending a stranger's ear or at one of my workshops or trainings, you've probably heard the story I'm about to tell you.  I share so maybe a little light is shed on the poison of perfectionism as it relates to doing three of the most important parts of the creativity:

1. enjoying the process
2. enjoying what you've done.
3. sharing it with the world

I'm holding a free call on Tuesday August 8, 11 am pacific/2 eastern called Is Perfectionism Ruining My Creative Mojo ? It will give you agives you an idea of some of the principles I teach in Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching and my workshops, and may lend a little freedom to the evil step-sister of creativity: perfectionism as well as how you can use compassion to move yourself out of both perfectionism and procrastination. Register here

 Other Workshops and Trainings

Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching Certification Training: Zoom

August 21, 2023 — December 11, 2023 17-weeks of learning tools and approaches through a rich online community, two live-inactive Zoom classes a week, discussion, reading, and experiences based on science, mindfulness, intuition, and permission to be free from the fear, habits, pressures, and messages we get that stop our creative joy. KMCC here

The Modern Day Muse Group Facilitation Training: Zoom
September 12 - December 5 (no class Thanksgiving week)

Two Muses: Albert (Terry Way) and Bea Silly (Rozy Walker) will be teaching you how to run your own creativity groups based on the book The Nine Modern Day Muses (and a Bodyguard). Or take it to return to, unleash or deepen your own creativity.

Save the date - registration will be coming up in upcoming newsletters.  Sign-up here

Wild Abandon at Omega Institute of Holistic Sciences: New York

October 1-6, 2023. A week of immersing ourselves in Wild Abandon writing, art, photography, and good times in a forest in the Hudson Valley.   Register here

The Muse in Winter: Writing and Art Retreat in Taos New Mexico:
Two spots open
 Feb 10-14, 2023

This year the workshops, art, improv, even the entertainment will be all geared toward writing. We will explore and celebrate creative writing and make art for writers in enchanting Taos.  Payment plans available. Taos link is here.  

Art Walk and Creativity on the Italian Riviera 

October 14-20, 2024 Plenty of time to save up for gelato!
I'll be providing the creative part of a tour to the Italian Riviera. Here's the link to sign-up     For all levels from beginners to travel-hungry pros.

The Underground Highway to Creative Results: Zoom and FB
For regular Fun Creative Prompts and a spectacular group of supportive creatives, join me in the Underground .

Monthly Zoom Creativity Workshop and Wild Abandon art and writing prompts weekly  and a secret FB page (optional)  for only $23 ..  .  Check that here.

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hi,

I wrote this poem a few years ago when I was single. I'll still single, but in two weeks, I'll be married. Yet, I will still be living alone because that's what we decided was best for both of our independent artist mentalities.

Read the text as you listen by clicking here. 

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Hi
It's Jill. This episode I explore a Georgia O'keefe quote that goes like this: “When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment.

Did Georgia O'Keefe really like flowers? You'll find out in this episode.

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The Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching Certification Training is coming up in August.
See more about that here.

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I'm not really in New Mexico... this is an encore episode to go along with the theme in this week's Muse letter of seeing things differently but also finding the beauty in things we see as the same. It has the full script of the episode as well as some creative prompts and pretty paintings. You can find that here.

Voice of Antonio: Robin Brisebois
Music: Epidemic Sound
Engineered, written, and narrated by Jill Badonsky

The 2024 Taos retreat is half full. Join me if you'd like that experience.. an immersion in the creative process with writing and art everyone can do, even if you're a lizard.

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The script is here if you want to follow along.

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Some traditions need to be examined, and maybe modified if they're not fun.
Some of us would rather high-five than bow, some of us would rather blow bubbles in our chocolate malts than act too serious.

I had fun writing this podcast. I find when I have a dry spell, I just submit to the silly, the absurd, and once again, my creative childlike spirit comes out to play. Sometimes it results in something inspirational, other times, it's just a good time. It's Bea Silly from my first book.

If you're interested in trying my Writing Club... it's only $10 a month. That exchange of a little movie (two cappucinos here in CA), will give you a little inspiration and accountability to stay true to yourself.  Check it out here.

If you want to add a monthly Zoom Creativity Workshop and Wild Abandon art prompts and a secret FB page (optional)  to that, it's only $7 more. (A $25 value that keeps creativity in your life).  Check that here.

My other hangouts are here  Thank you for listening

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Don't quit your daydream. 
Daydreaming is the source of infinite creativity.      

Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.  ~Michael Pollan

Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.      `Daniel Goleman

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie. ~Anais Nin

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It's rainy here in San Diego. I wrote a poem and podcast last year about rain. I was in an Airbnb for two months because my bathroom was being renovated. It seemed fitting to send it to you again..

Here's the writing 

"I’ve been taking a masterclass from poet, Joy Harjo.  She says -- one of the elements to writing good poetry is listening. Everything has something to say. The trees, the sky, the potted plants on the front porch.

So  I started listening.

I was stuck in an Airbnb in hillcrest for two months and started listening.

And what I found is that if you pay attention closely, things are talking,  A LOT.  

The desk, refrigerator, the sink, the comforter, my robe, the fern  were all were chatting.
 The coffee pot was percolating in laughter, the heat was humming a mambo,

 the cabinets were complaining about crumbs.

Where once there was silence, there was  a cacophony of conversation…because I was listening.

My attention turned to outside the window where the talk was louder.

This Airbnb was on a busy street and the street was wet from rain.

Every time a car went by it said sssssssshhhhhsss,  which I believe was “yes”

Every time a car passed by on the wet concrete I heard the word “yesss”

When a group of cars went by one after another,  it was a flurry of yesess in a tag team procession.

The yeses came and went… nothing ssstayed yesss for long,   

The noissse evaporated into sssilence as sssoon as the cars …. passsssssed.    

So I asked the quessstionsss I wissshed were anssswered with yesss.. 

Will people ever live and let live? Will peace ever stay? Will the violence stop soon?

There was a sudden absence of cars. Silence, no “yessses.”   

Not too long after.  more cars came, but they didn’t say yes, …

They said, “wisssh … wisssh .. wisssh..”   

That’s what I heard as I listened to the cars driving on wet pavement…” wisssh “

A truck said, “Get out of my way”… then a bus said, “Same old routine, same old.. route, day after day.”

The rain came down heavier and it started talking, I listened… this is what it said:

Yes, is not the ansswer to your impossssible questionsss,  …. that’s just your wisssh,  

Peaccce can be elusssive,  …    lisssten closssely…   the carsss aren’t saying yesss…and they aren’t saying wisssh : they are saying thisss too shall passsss the rain, the darknessss, the conflict

[yes] this too shall passss,   carsss on a rainy street,   the thought you’re thinking,   the pain you’re feeling,

  thessse too shall passss, and then whatever comes next, that shall passss too.

 Listen to the peace inside of you."

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This was written in 2020 to help us get through, you know, that thing in 2020. But it's also relaxing for 2023 and beyond.

Embrace the Wabi Sabi

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This is a Re-re-release of the episode called Rain because it just feels like people need a little relaxation and reverie during this time where the contagion, politics and the threat of climate change is exhausting us. Plus the holidaze.  When I listened to it again, it seemed new, that's the nice thing about forgetting stuff. And it's raining in San Diego right now.

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Hi! Thank you for listening.

This is a replay from last year, but I have to admit I laugh everytime I hear and thought you might need a laugh.

Check out www.themuseisin.com for more inspiration.
 

Take care

And here's where you can find more of my posts.
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What happens when olives don't agree with Zeus?
Who is the mother of the nine Muse's?
How do we keep our creativity going during fear and despair?
I'm pretty sure this podcast answers those questions.
Written, engineered, and narrated by Jill Badonsky

Guest voices:
Robin Brisebois and Kelly Kirchmar-Heger
Birds in the background by birds in the background
Apologies for mispronunciations (it's all Greek to me)

Music by Epidemic Sound
Wild Abandon Retreat in Rhinebeck, NY
Creativity Retreat on a Greek Island

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What if you could call a hotline to get ideas? I did and for SOME REASON it required a lot of patience. But I did get a pizza out of it, you might get a tip or two about your creativity.

Explanation of where Wild Abandon Art and Writing Came from

Voice Actors:
Robin Brisebois - he's an architect
Sadie Spikes, Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach
Nicky Pitman - Master Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach
Kim Selby, Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach with a Podcast called Ignite Your Spark: Here's the episode I got to be on.

For More information about Kaizen-Muse Creativity, classes, retreats and trainings... go here.

Jill Badonsky is the author/illustrator of three books on the creative process, creator/trainer at KMCC, and internationally recognized workshop leader. She teaches at the La Jolla Athenaeum and Omega Institute as well as through www.themuseisin.com

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A relaxing romp ... into roses.  A tour to serve as a little vacation from  your stresses that can also feed your creativity.  At least 12 metaphors - send me a list of them for a drawing for a copy of the book, The Awe-manac: A Daily Dose of Wonder

Written, narrated, and engineered by author/illustrator, workshop/retreat leader, Jill Badonsky.

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What happens when the Cheshire Cat becomes a life coach?
This episode is inspired by Lewis Carroll and thanks to Terry Way

Written, narrated, and engineered by Jill Badonsky
Thank you for listening. Share if it feels right.
Be kind to yourself. Stay safe.

The Ministry of Silly Walks reference:

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This one is a little more subdued due to what's happening in the world, but intended to bring some perspective and peace to your day. Thank you to poet laureate, Joy Harjo, for the inspiration.

Written, narrated, and engineered by Jill Badonsky
Inspired by Joy Harjo, US Poet Laureate
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Emily Dickinson said, “I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.”

This episode explores how to make words shine and involves a whale, a giant, and a goat named Mog.

Music by EpidemicSound
Sound effects by Zapsplat
Voice of the giant: Robin Brisebois
Voice of the Mog the Goat by Barney the Goat

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In this episode, we witness the power of the imagination to transform the mundane to the magical in an unexpected way.

"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it bearing within him the image of a cathedral." ~Antoine  de Saint-Exupéry

Written, narrated and engineered by Jill Badonsky
Guest voice: Robin Brisebois

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This how a quote from mystery writer Agatha Christie inspires  the best way to daydream for creative fruition.

Subscribe to A Muse's Daydream wherever you get your podcasts.

Written, narrated, and engineered by Jill Badonsky.

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Sometimes there's a double meaning to a quote, other times a single meaning, and still other times... no meaning at all. Which one is it in this episode?

Are you allowed to make up your own quotes, or is that going through the door you were told not to go into?

BTW.. I love Anne Lamott, I highly recommend all of her books and thank her for her wisdom.
As for me, I'm Jill Badonsky, author/illustrator of three and a half books, creator and trainer of the mindful approach to creativity training: Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching.

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To sign up for Getting Our Creative Minds Back for 2022 on Sundays in January  -is already over.

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You are invited to this tea part of the imagination.
It is a delicious thing to use the imagination, to exist in any universe of our choosing. To simultaneously be villain or heroine, to be an autumn afternoon where a red leaf  lets go of its hold on a maple tree and surrenders in floppy grace to the ground. The imagination is a vacation from reality into a playground of associations, inventions, and daydreams of chance possibilities so grand they take our breaths away… but there are more breaths waiting to be breathed. 

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Have a beautiful holiday.
Jill

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We interrupt this holidaze, for a little bit of nothing. Brought to you by A Muse's Daydream,  The Muse is In, and Gertrude Stein.  Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. 

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Written, illustrated, and narrated by author/illustrator Jill Badonsky

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This short episode of A Moment with a Muse uses the inspiration of Vincent Van Gogh as a conduit for perseverance. Imagine yourself with unflappable tenacity with whatever it is calling to you.

One way you can persevere with your creative passion is by joining me on Mondays, 8:30 am pacific time/ 11:30 am eastern for what I call Parallel Universe Time. It's a time we hold the space for each other to work on something we've been putting off or simply getting the contagion of being in a community of focused individuals working on our creative passions.  It's free. Join us at this Zoom link at the bewitching hour.

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This episode is about staying with an idea through creative chaos and the occasional trio of sandpipers. Dedicated to Tom Robbins.

Art-filled Permission Slip to take it to the wildest of edges,
Written, illustrated, and narrated by author/illustrator Jill Badonsky
With the character voices of Linda Blom, Robin Brisebois, Nicky Pitman, Sadie Spikes, and Reba Spencer.
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In this episode, we go back a bit in time ... but the sentiment remains the same:  Paying attention to the senses is a good way to get into the creative moment.

Sensoria, played by Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach, Sadie Spikes, gives us this wisdom, and despite or maybe BECAUSE of ruminations, a creative story emerges ... along with a refreshing sea breeze.

I'd love to hear whether you enjoyed the Moment with a Muse shorter podcasts. Let me know by dropping me a line at jillbadonsky @ hotmail.com  (without the spaces).

Written and narrated by author/illustrator, Jill Badonsky
Pass it along to a friend who needs a mini-vacation.

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Sometimes adopting the thoughts of others can embolden our own confidence. Try a thought from painter, Georgia O'Keefe.

Written and narrated by Jill Badonsky, Author/illustrator of three books on the creative process, creator/trainer, Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching Certification training, mindfulness/yoga teacher
Inspired by Sam Harris
Quote by Georgia O'Keefe
Muse Letter about this subject

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Giving yourself permission to make time for your creativity can have a bigger impact on who you are than you might have been thinking. 
 

Consider that if you’re listening to this, creativity is a value of yours. There’s something beyond the intellect that’s calling you to engage in this love affair with the present moment  – it’s instinctual and validating. Engaging in creativity in a conscious liberated way without the pressure to be perfect makes you a more secure and confident person. Why wouldn’t you make time for that? Even if it’s just five minutes. Or asking yourself a question about your next step while you’re driving or showering without a need for an immediate answer.  Enticing curiosity is a valid part of the creative process and leads us to being more inspired to take the next step.

When you honor this value by spending time with it,  your core strengthens and you’re more likely to  develop into a resilient, patient, resourceful person – because creativity calls upon those qualities and that  resilience, patience, and resourcefulness – WILL start to show up in other areas of your life. As a stronger individual you will be more present, tolerant, and beneficial to those around you.. Give yourself permission to be a better person by making time for your creativity.

A Moment with a Muse is filling in while A Muse's Daydream is on break.

Written and narrated by Jill Badonsky

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Take a moment to revisit a feeling that can only serve you, both creatively and physically.

Written and narrated by Jill Badonsky, Author/illustrator of three books on the creative process, creator/trainer, Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching Certification training, mindfulness/yoga teacher
Inspired by Sam Harris

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"A Muse's Moment" is subbing from A Muse's Daydream while that Muse is refilling.
Offered on Mondays for your creative fortification in little messages under three minutes.

Play it once, play it fourteen times... the Muse will rearrange your thinking and feeling in the direction of mindfulness and creative dreams. Subscribe where you get your podcasts or on Youtube.

Written and narrated by Jill Badonsky
Inspired by Sam Harris

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Thank you for listening to Season 2. I will be back with new episodes. I'm resting on my maples for a bit (laurels are uncomfortable), and working on a new book.

Stay in touch.  Here's where I hang-out
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The nice thing about little stories is you can listen to them again and get something new the second time. I think that might be the case with this story. Our lives wax and wane but one thing remains the same, creativity is a reflection of our brightness  ... and sometimes our darkness.  This episode sheds some light on the creative process.

"Sometimes when we just let .. ideas go  out the window, we can practice trusting that the next idea may make us better off than we are. But I think what is truer, is that we are fine just the WAY we are. … in our darkness, our light,   our emptiness, our fullness, and each time we start over anew in whatever we do ."

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In this episode, peacocks, cat hair, and acting "as if" all play a part in the power of a daydream to transport us to a red carpet and the confidence that can ensue by doing so.

Written, narrated and engineered by Jill Badonsky with guest voice, Robin Brisebois.
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This is a Re-release of the episode called Rain because it just feels like people need a little relaxation and reverie and when I listened to it again, it seemed new, that's the nice thing about forgetting stuff.

Written, engineered, and narrated by Jill Badonsky
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Celebrating one year of A Muse's Daydream with one of the most popular episodes and a drawing for regular listeners.

To enter the drawing: email me at info@themuseisin.com with A Muse's Drawing in the subject line. Tell me where you're from and if you have a favorite episode by August 30th. Prizes: New out-of-print editions of The Awe-manac: A Daily Dose of Wonder, $35 Gift Certificate to Bookshop.org, original art from yours truly.

For more about events, etc. visit The Muse is In website

Liz Fulcher, the Fragrant Muse, can be found here. Her podcast is here. You won't be sorry you listened to it.

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This episode  illustrates how the writer (that would be me), can be influenced by TV shows and movies from the 60s and 70s, a zigzag carpet design that asks me to dance, and the altered state of consciousness one can get into when daydreaming while getting a massage. And of course, there's a nugget of wisdom.
Sometimes it's more painful not to follow a creative call than it is to follow one that goes nowhere.

Written, narrated, and engineered by Jill Badonsky. 

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What if you could call a hotline to get ideas? I did and for SOME REASON it required a lot of patience. But I did get a pizza out of it, you might get a tip or two about your creativity.

Voice Actors:
Robin Brisebois - he's an architect
Sadie Spikes, Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach
Nicky Pitman - Master Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach
Kim Selby, Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach with a Podcast called Ignite Your Spark:
"Get "lit" with conversations that will encourage you to share your light! If you are struggling to get motivated, know there is more for you in this life or you feel stuck in a rut. I'm here for YOU." Here's the episode I got to be on.

For More information about Kaizen-Muse Creativity, classes, retreats and trainings... go here.

Jill Badonsky is the author/illustrator of three books on the creative process, creator/trainer at KMCC, and internationally recognized workshop leader. She teaches at the La Jolla Athenaeum and Omega Institute as well as through www.themuseisin.com

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I've been a little stuck with coming up with a new episode lately, so I tuned into Radio Daydream. Where do those kind of daydreams come from? The answer has something to do with brooms, unused amused,  WD40, and a little bit of belief.  What if you embraced your magnificence just a little more?

Written, narrated, and engineered by Jill Badonsky.
Guest voice and broom sweeping: Robin Brisebois

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Last October, in the middle of election insanity and pandemicness, I found an article about the water found in the Clavius Crater on the moon. I took a trip to the moon to get out of the craziness and found out how relaxing it can be to just float in a relaxing body of water.  I still need moments to revisit that experience and thought you might too.

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Hi,

I'm revisiting November 2020 when the pandemic was still in high gear. It's interesting to see how I was feeling then - and how helpful the creative imagination was in getting through it.
It was time for me to get out of the house for a hike - a haze that smelled like garlic was following me around at home.  The hike was a little foggy, a lot like how the creative process is sometimes.  . This episode includes owls, squirrels, and garbanzo beans.
Written, narrated, engineered by Jill Badonsky.
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In this episode you hear about Evil Witch Dry Cleaners, flying monkeys, and a journey down a yellow brick road of an idea.  Writing gives us the power to create our own reality.

Another adventure in the metaphor of the creative process with special powers to relax and inspire you..
Written, narrated and engineered by Jill Badonsky.
Music by Epidemic Sound

Good Witch played by Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach and Founder • AVANT HAÜS MEDIA, Christina Barsi.
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Blanche interrupts our regular programming with a Mother's Day message for everyone, even if you're not a mother and especially if Mother's Day isn't all chocolate and roses.
Written, narrated, and engineered by Jill Badonsky with special guest... Blanche Baldwin, Muse Broker

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In this episode a writer is waiting for the perfect conditions to write in a galaxy of complications and distractions. It includes a boar, a Bed, Bath and Beyond flier, and a river of lilacs.

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I received a brochure for an  art museum where my thoughts were interactive works of art. There is abalone, slippers, and  a belly button in this episode, as well as a busy café where I can overhear my thoughts talking at the next table about a shrimp louie hankering. Written, narrated, and engineered by Jill Badonsky.

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The third in the trilogy of Beach muses imparting creative wisdom, this episode is about...  well, I'll have to check my notes, but as I recall its conclusion is vital to the cultivation and execution of creative ideas. It includes drawing coffee cups with the eyes closed and a song I didn't write.
Written and narrated by Jill Badonsky
The voice of the Muse Scribe was played by Rozy Walker
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A Lewis-Carrolesque Yellow Brick Road journey to a Muse or .... staying with an idea through creative chaos and the occasional trio of sandpipers. Dedicated to Tom Robbins.
Art-filled Permission Slip to take it to the wildest of edges,
Written, illustrated, and narrated by Jill Badonsky
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With the voices of Linda Blom, Robin Brisebois, Nicky Pitman, Sadie Spikes, and Reba Spencer.
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A Muse's Daydream, Season two, opens with inbred thoughts, a walk on the beach, and meeting up with an eccentric Muse that has an original way of delivering inspiration. 
The voice of the Muse Sensoria is played by Sadie Spikes, my good friend and a Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach.

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A return to the episode where a poet is under too much pressure to read, so she reads the back of a cereal box.  What happens when the Muse gets exasperated.

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Paul Klee's quote, "A line is a dot that went for a walk," made me wonder what other things dots do.  In this episode, learn an important creative principle as well as a good rule to live by. Cameo appearance by yoga and meditation teacher, and Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach, Nicky Pitman. Written, narrated, and engineered by Jill Badonsky.

Nicky raises money for organizations that connect the dots. You can donate too if you want:
Poor People's Campaign https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/

Open Communities  https://www.open-communities.org/

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In this episode:  

Tazo Awake Tea (C)  takes me on a journey but then a bunch of Gnomes named Harvey get crazy with mint. It's all in the interest of using the imagination to color our existence with something different than the day to day that might be crazy making during the pandemic and to be kind to ourselves even when we are cranky.
Written, narrated, engineered by Jill Badonsky, author/illustrator of three books on creativity, creator/trainer of Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching Certification program, retreat leader, and multi-media artist. 

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A imaginative sensory journey to tame overwhelm, complete with a scribble dog, aromatherapy, and solutions you may not have thought about. With a guest appearance by my friend and aromatherapy expert, Liz Fulcher. You can find more about her here and she has a popular podcast here.

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It was time for me to get out of the house for a hike - a haze that smelled like garlic was following me around at home.  The hike was a little foggy, a lot like how the creative process is sometimes.  . This episode includes owls, squirrels, and garbanzo beans.
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I happened to grab 17 moonbeams on my way back from Episode 13... A Swim on the Moon . I wasn't sure what to do with them, just like sometimes we're not sure what to do with a creative idea. Despite a nightmare about dishes running away with spoons, I did end up writing by the light of one of them a few secrets about the creative process.  Sometimes ideas don't go anywhere... that's okay. It's a natural part of the process. A Muse's Daydream is available on most podcast platforms including Apple, Stitcher, and Spotify. More creative secrets are available at www.kaizenmuse.com if you subscribe to my newsletter.  Take care, Jill Badonsky.

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Sometimes when the earth is a little dark, we need to take a swim on the moon.  This is a little daydream for relaxation and creativity during a tough phase in reality.  It may be a dark phase, but just like the moon, the light always comes back. Written and narrated, engineered by Jill Badonsky with a cameo by Robin Brisebois. Available on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, Buzzsprout, and other podcast platforms. Follow Jill Badonsky on Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest. Subscribe to her newsletter here
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 Refrigerator Art was influenced by my love of Alice in Wonderland, art that kids do, and a kind gesture. It also includes themes near and dear to me, like the extent I might go to to satisfy a chocolate craving, feeling a little crazy during the pandemic, and my propensity to lose things. And it answers the question as to whether the refrigerator light stays on.  Enjoy, share with your friends, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, and other podcast platforms. ~Jill Badonsky
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This is a dream I actually had, slightly embellished, but still full of the original "wonders." And light. Come lie on the floor with me and look up into the chandeliers for some relaxation, inspiration, and lightness.  Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, and Amazon. Send a copy to a friend. Stay safe, - Jill Badonsky
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The creativity prompt was: Ask a totem, a rock, or a shell a question and write down its answer. I asked a coaster beside my bed, on the end table.... but I liked the answer.  A Muse's Daydream. Written, narrated, and engineered by Jill Badonsky. Music from Epidemic Sound.
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Join me as I interview Muse Broker, Blanche Baldwin over some sweet potato fries. We were at Lester's Bar and Grill off of the New Jersey Turnpike at Exit 14. She has a Creativity Jukebox you might want to know about.  Find out what it plays. Subscribe where most podcasts are found. Stay safe, Jill Badonsky
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Feeling blue?  Here's a reframe of blue for you. Dedicated to the memory of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and all women who are ruthlessly dedicated to making the world a better place. Subscribe to a Muse's Daydream of Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and where most podcasts can be found.

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If you're someone who sometimes doesn't finish projects, you may enjoy this audio tour inside a museum of projects that were abandoned. There is also snickerdoodle dough, a tap dancing performance, and a little wisdom over an unfinished cappuccino.  GIve yourself permission to be imperfect. Subscribe to my newsletter for creative prompts that go with each episode. Here's the one for the Museum

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This is a listen to soothe the weariness caused by events of late. There's a writing loft with a teddy bear recliner, rain, and a little magic.  Relax, send it to a friend. Download and prescribe from where most podcasts are found. Be kind to yourself, Jill badonsky

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What happens when a Muse tries desperately to get a poet to write a poem? Including tossing some really fine adjectives onto her paper.  In this episode: rice pilaf leftovers, morning glories, and of course, a daydream. Be good to yourself.
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What happens when a co-dependent cat owner doesn't want her kitty to have bad dreams. Staying easily amused... in a pandemic. Designed to relax, inspire, and amuse the listener. Take care. Be good to yourself. ~Jill Badonsky

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In this episode, there is an art-filled bike ride to a hammock where an unexpected idea is stolen from a cloud. There is the weeping of willow trees, a theft, and ultimately, a cinnamon roll. It's designed, to relax, amuse, and inspire you. This one is a little under 10 minutes but it seems a lot shorter.

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Ever wonder happens when you step in Shepherd's Pie? This is a little journey about clumsiness, shoe laces, and grace designed to convince you, in an off-beat but true manner, that you belong.  It's a very strange time so be good to yourself. Listen to things that soothe you.  
In creativity and apple sauce, 
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This is the first episode of A Muse's Daydream: A podcast designed to enchant you with amusement, relaxation, and a tip to bring you more creativity in every episode.

Written, narrated, and engineered by Jill Badonsky, author/illustrator of three books on the creative process

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