Lately, I’ve been watching “Gardener’s World,” a BBC show that I view on BritBox. I love digging in the dirt, and the images of these beautiful gardens thrill me. The gorgeous cinematography overflows with the brilliant color of flowers and foliage of every kind, and…
Author: LA Bourgeois
As a creative, we often work on our own. We sit in our studios or our offices or at our kitchen tables and find ourselves looking at the dog and asking him if he can take the time out from his busy napping schedule for…
We’ve all seen them at concerts – those dudes sitting on the side with their displays of t-shirts and hats featuring your favorite rock-n-roll superstars. They’re selling branded merchandise for you to take and display your love for this musician to the world. So, what…
The other day, I was listening to a podcast…. Hello. My name is LA Bourgeois. I am a podcast-aholic. (Got any favorites? Pass them my way!) So, I was listening to a podcast and the speaker said that she always approached projects with an attitude…
Whenever challenges arise that I know are going to be weird and hard and thrilling and joyous and horrible all at the same time, I turn to music to keep moving. The right song lets me sing the words in my heart and dance in…
How do you function and maintain creativity when the panic and fear reach out to crush your heart and push all of the air out of your lungs until you are gasping? How do you stand back up when you’re knocked to your knees by…
As I wrote up my report for January, I kept getting this picture in my mind of speaking to a group of people sitting around a conference table. They all wore regular “business wear,” peering up at me in their blazers and button-down shirts. This…
Each month in 2021, I’m creating a report to record the flow and track my progress. Just like I require of my clients, I’ll be reporting on my creative and spiritual progress as well as the business side of everything. January is the first month…
We all have wings, our tools that we carry with us. These tools aren’t necessarily your literal tools, like pens or brushes or saws. Tools travel with us in our being: our intuition, kindness, knowledge, expertise. Supporting us through hard times; they are the skills…
In a dream a few months ago, I was walking through a forest up a mountain. I began to run, whipping along the trail, leaping up boulders, and finding my way up the mountain. The trail broke out of the trees to reveal the pointy…