Reclaim Sundays as a day of reflection, insight and just a little laziness.
Learn to slow down, let go, experiment and play a little and just watch your creativity unfold!

Being creative isn’t all about making stuff and being good at it!
It’s way of seeing, feeling, listening, investigating and understanding the world.
Here follows 50 suggestions, exercises and projects to help you for a few hours once a week, unravel that ball of wool in your head you call ‘busy’, 'must' and ‘deadline’ and crochet it into that quirky Sunday jumper you may well love enough to want to wear on a weekday.

This is a personal account, with ideas and suggestions along the way of how to 'let go' of that critical bit of the brain and just see where it takes you. 

“Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.”
Alan Watts (Thinker and Interpreter of Zen Buddhism, 1915-1973)

“We should be mucking about all the time, because mucking about is enjoying life for its own sake, now, and not in preperation for an imaginary future. It's obvious that the mirth filled man, the cheerful soul, the childish adult is the one who has least to fear from life.”
Tom Hodgkinson (Author -The freedom manifesto)

“Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week”
Joseph Addison (English essayist, poet and Statesman 1672 -1719)

14 - ugly beauty



Quite a few beautiful things, are really pretty horrid, and many ugly things are quite good in one way or another. 
Insect-eating plants are uniquely beautiful and captivate the eye of all who behold. 
Each produces shimmering leaves lined with glistening droplets of glue that attract, trap and kill insects and other small animals in a fairly ghastly way. 

During a walk in the park, I found myself turning away from the perfect blueness of the sky and became transfixed by the marbling of scum on a dirty pond. It lead me to question which was the most beautiful, at that moment, I had to admit the scum was strangely and surprisingly more captivating.

“It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds.
Swami Vivekananda (influential spiritual leader of the philosophies of Yoga and Vedanta 1863-1902)