10 Valentine’s Day Scrapbooking Ideas With or Without Photos

[ad_1] Valentine’s Day is all about romance, love and friendship. It may not be a common picture-taking opportunity, but with or without a photo, there are still plenty of Valentine’s Day scrapbooking ideas. Remember this February 14th and that special someone you asked to be yours with these Valentine’s Day scrapbook page tips. 1. Find […]

The Poetical Works of Tiruloka Sitaram With Translation and Notes – Part II

[ad_1] This is the second part of the review of the book titled, ‘The Poetical Works of Tiruloka Sitaram with Translation and Notes’. This book consists of 55 poems of the great Tamil poet Tiruloka Sitaram duly translated in English by Sekkizhar Adi-p-podi Dr T.N.Ramachandran. Gandharva Ganam, The Lord-Owner, The Nest of Sparrows, The Canopy […]

Learn Numbers With Fun Counting Rhymes For Kids

[ad_1] Learning should be fun and not a chore. Preschoolers and kids will love and enjoy learning the numbers if taught in a fun way. So, why not teach the little ones counting in a musical way by singing some joyful number songs. Develop early math skills of kids by singing fun songs such as: […]

African Artists’ Painting Inspiration

[ad_1] Every time any artist decides to make a painting, they have their own source of inspiration for a given subject, whether it be a realistic inspiration from real life memory or abstract subjects that they represent solely from their imagination. The world surrounding an artist influences what they paint. The mind of the artist […]

Self-Care for Creative Artists: 10 Reasons To Care About It

[ad_1] 1. To be more comfortable in performance situations – performance anxiety usually stems from a variety of causes – physical, mental and emotional. Maintaining your overall health and wellness, including keeping your stress at a manageable level, managing your negative thinking tendencies and getting the emotional support you need, will diffuse some of this […]

Creativity Tool – The Five Senses

[ad_1] Sometimes our most obvious and daily “tool” can be the source of creative ideas. I am talking about our Five Senses. This tool can be used to produce ideas for designing products, spaces or rooms, ideas for parties or special events, and much more. Here is how you can use our natural gifts for […]

Love, Romance, Relationship: Some Poetic Scenes!

[ad_1] Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder! True. Let us try to understand the terms love, romance and relationship from some poetic scenes from Sanskrit and Tamil literature. First from an anthology called Kurunthokai from early Tamil literature. A hero on seeing the heroine fell in love with her. Love at first sight. […]

Whisper of the Star

[ad_1] CHOI Lai Sheung. Whispers of the Star. A Collection of Poems(Chinese-English Bilingual). Translated by Zhang Zhizhong. Published by The Earth Culture Press (USA), August 2009, Pages 247, Price US $ 10.00. ISBN 978-0-9637599-6-5/A.080 CHOI Lai Sheung, who writes brief personal lyrical poems, is a contemporary Chinese poet, born in Shishi City in Fujian Province […]

One Great Christmas Verse, Three Incomparable Gifts

[ad_1] For many people, Christmas is primarily a time of physical consumption, feeding our bodies with much food and other material goods. May this also be a season of greatly needed spiritual consumption, feeding our souls with the Word of God and the great truths about the purpose of Christ’s birth. To that end, here […]

Reviewing When We Were Slugs!

[ad_1] There are two things I don’t like about “When We Were Slugs”, the new poetry collection from James Manlow, the erstwhile Poet Laureate for Bournemouth. The first dislike is the cover, which to me seems a mess, a splodge. My second objection is the title, which is one of the poems, but which, whilst […]

Breathing Stars, Inspiration and the Labyrinth of Correspondence

[ad_1] In about 5 billion years our sun is expected to die. Recently the Hubble Space Telescope, trained on the planetary nebula NGC 6210 about 6,500 light-years away, photographed a star, slightly less massive than our sun, suffering its last gasp. A dying star forms a planetary nebula (really just gas and dust, but resembling […]

Grow Up: Time to Give Up Your YA Books

[ad_1] Tired of my Tumblr dashboard being drowned under pictures of immaculate shelves stocked with YA novels and neatly piled Harry Potter books between a Macbook slim and a Starbucks cup, I thought I would come out of my Nerdcave and see what the hype was all about. I started with the preconceived idea that […]

Writing Science Poetry

[ad_1] Science poetry or scientific poetry is a specialized poetic genre that makes use of science as its subject. Written by scientists and nonscientists, science poets are generally avid readers and appreciators of science and “science matters.” Science poetry may be found in anthologies, in collections, in science fiction magazines that sometimes include poetry, in […]

In These Present Times How Worried Should We Be?

[ad_1] Read Matthew Chapter 6 verses 24 to 34. Over these past weeks the interviewers’ oft repeated question has been – “How worried are you?” In the early part of Chapter 6 – from “The Sermon on The Mount” – Jesus has been speaking about – Giving verses 1 to 4 – Praying verses 5 […]

5 Top Sources of Inspiration That Will Help You Become a Successful Entrepreneur

[ad_1] There are people who were involved in the business industry due to the thrill and excitement that it brings. However, there are moments when you will find that it is hard. If you lack the passion, a negative situation can easily affect your motivation and positivity. Though this situation is only temporary, it can […]

How to Write Creative Non-fiction

[ad_1] Creative nonfiction is nonfiction that uses the techniques of creative writing, especially the techniques of both literary and popular nonfiction. These well-established techniques help to generate greater interest and salability than traditional “just the facts” nonfiction. Here are some of the techniques derived from fiction: Person Usually the first person is used because it […]

Creative Writing For Stress Relief

[ad_1] Creative writing can be a powerful tool for stress relief. Here’s how it works: Write about what bugs you, either in journal entry form or as poetry. There have been scientific studies on this that showed that it really works. You’re taking the stuff that’s festering deep inside you and bringing it out in […]