Happy New Year!

May you all find the courage to make your ideas come to fruition in the new year!

till next time,

Dream Yourself Awake.

The Clarity Cloud Consortium™  

EPISODE 10: Spread Thin

Spread thin.

Hashtag current mood. Seriously I’m in a good place but also so much is happening which is part of the reason I’m so slow to put out these past couple of podcast episodes. I know I can’t do it all even if I want to. I think acceptance of this fact is the first step to getting back to a more whole place and  be able to make progress once again. But it’s a big step as I have said when you want to take it all on it can make acceptance of not being able to do it all a bit more difficult. 

EPISODE 9: iNSPiRaTion

in·spi·ra·tion ˌinspəˈrāSH(ə)n noun

1.the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially to do something creative.

Inspire:

—verb (used with object), in·spired, in·spir·ing.

a to infuse (breath, life, etc.) by breathing (usually followed by into ).

b to breathe into or upon

Origin: 1300–50; Middle English inspiren < Latin inspīrāre to breathe upon or into, equivalent to in- in-2+ spīrāre to breathe

INSPIRATION

The word inspiration has early roots in Latin, meaning to breath upon and breath life into. I personally love the idea of this extra life force breathing even more life into us, making us better humans if not just for a moment. We push humanity forward every time inspiration shows itself to someone; A cure, a scientific breakthrough, a beautiful poem or a visual feast of a painting to name a few. These are the astonishing parts of humanity - how we create and share our wonder, that makes life meaningful and makes you want to wake up in the morning at the chance you just might be inspired that day. 

EPISODE 8: TIME JACKERS & TIME THIEVES

Time Jackers & Time Thieves 

It’s getting away from you, it’s holding you up, it’s running out, it’s moving too fast, it’s moving too slow.  Time, any way you face it it is not on your side. We battle against time every moment we are on this spinning rock. Some try to stop it, some try control it with auto alerts and calendar schedules or some just wallow in old stale time crumbs of nostalgia ignoring the present because maybe the present is too painful, scary, boring or just not what we expected. Time is an unforgiving foe, a terrifying carnival ride of life that takes all of our tickets at some point when time’s up. 

EPISODE 7: CHAOS BIRTH

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star” 
— Friedrich Nietzsche

Navigating Chaos and embracing it, that is what I am currently doing this episode. Fresh on the heels of my very own chaos state. So it’s super relevant for me! I won’t bore you with personal details as we all have our cups filled with chaos and life. The part I want to focus on is how to exist during this moment as well as how to move past this period into a better place. 

Chaos, it rears it’s ugly darkness at unexpected moments in our lives. But if we look at life it is a series of unexpected moments if you think about it. I am currently in a chaos state of my own as I make this very podcast. Yet, instead of dwelling on the minutia of what brought on this chaos state or being strangled by fear I want to approach it head on. I want to run straight into it's face so I can tackle it and move on. This pesky chaos mode can infiltrate our lives having the potential to destroy our creative selves. We can get too entangled in the mess and the empty unknown darkness of chaos. The unknown tangles of disorder and worry of chaos can strike fear in the hearts of many. 

I want to take a different approach because honestly fear is boring and I’m tired of feeling scared in life. Instead I’d like to think from a more mythological standpoint and see how chaos is a beginning, a birth stage into something else. What this new birth will bring that I don’t know yet but embracing that part of the chaos helps me move forward in a more poetic positive direction. So I follow along side chaos eventually taking the lead. 

EPISODE 6: CREATIVE HIBERNATION

“Artists don't get down to work until the pain of working is exceeded by the pain of not working.” — Stephen DeStaebler 

Creative hibernation is part of the creative process whether we like it or not - we need that moment of stillness, of pause in order to heal our minds psychic wounds which opened up during  our creative release. When you’re making really honest work we open ourselves up, we become vulnerable, fragile. We need to heal those parts that we opened up during our creative release and that is where creative hibernation comes in.I believe this is an integral part of the creative process it’s a cycle.

EPISODE 5 : FEAR

#TheAngieJournals ©Angie Mason Sketchbook 2018

I’m scared! What was that!? What’s going to happen next I don’t know I’m JUST really scared. 

Looking Straight into the Abyss and Questioning Fear…

As far back as I can remember invisible monsters always existed in life as well as very real ones.  The fear of monsters under our beds in our closets, on the other side of the door! The unknown, it’s terrifying!  This episode will focus more on the imaginary ones we create in our daily lives, the one’s that we manufacture in our minds and ultimately have some control over. You know those fears namely the ones that evoke fear in our hearts, making our skin pale and stomach turn and sink. 

EPISODE 4 : PERFECTION IS A DISEASE...

#theAngieJournals © Angie Mason 2018

Perfectionism is a Disease that Halts Progress… 
Don’t let perfection stop you from doing the things that you are dreaming of accomplishing. Perfection can be a real disease and halt progress in so many facets of life. It certainly wreaks havoc in the creative realm. I think it is better to progress imperfectly and move forward than stay in the same place not make any mistakes but also not moving not making any progress. 

Seekers always seeking...

We all could use some more clarity... including my cats! *Clarity Cloud resin sculpture by Angie Mason.

EPISODE 3: Environment is everything.

Thought Journal - Artist Angie Mason 

Being able to carve out a space where you go sit and be without distractions is key to being able to bring ideas to fruition.

EPISODE 2: Navigating Life Paths

“On the road to find out “ -it’s a Cat Stevens song and this captures and also applies to so much of the search for meaning we go through in life really…

Allowing myself to be lost in order to be found. That has been a mantra of my mine for what feels like decades now. Having the understanding that this life is complicated and confusing and to forgive ourselves for not always getting there, to the place we thought we needed to be. To forgive ourselves for being lost, but really in the end we should thank ourselves, by letting the chaos of life seep into or psyches we actually helped ourselves grow. We saw more of what life’s roads and paths look like and  we became more familiar with the winding complexity of back roads basically making us better fuller humans by being more in tune with the complexities of human nature. 

New mantras for next level ...

We are the Seekers...

We are the Dreamers...

Dreaming Ourselves Awake.

Right before us stand so many possibilities, so many dreams waiting to in the worst words get blown. Don't blow it kids, oh wait totally blow it make wishes and always DREAM BIG the day you stop dreaming is the day you die. ❤️✨✨✨✨ 

EPISODE 1: Small steps are still progress...

Sometimes the best thing you do all day is peel an orange in one continuous piece. #creativehibernation

What is the Clarity Cloud Blogcast & Podcast all about you ask? This is basically the genesis, the beginning, my personal super nova big bang start of a new project which is creating a new platform to discuss and nurture the idea of our creative lives.