@FromSilence
From Silence
@FromSilence · 2:04

Creativity Question: Where Do You Feel Inspired?

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It looks like someone's been here recently trying to look at some stuff, because there's a little bit more here than there was and things have been pulled out of, like, the kitchen and but, yeah, it's a beautiful house, but it's a ruin now, actually. The second floor is entirely gone. That's the roofing blowing in the breeze

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@GODISTHRIFTY
Augustine Hicks
@GODISTHRIFTY · 1:47

@FromSilence. Awesome Question. Thanks

So it's just everything that is natural in the outdoors inspires me to go inside of my head and pull out some of the gems that have been cluttered. And I'm always amazed at the wonderful thing that God will do when you can just enjoy what is naturally free but gives you amazing priceless joy. So, thanks a lot for the question and I look forward to hearing more
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@DBPardes
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:21

@FromSilence #askSwell

And I like to be in a bathtub, just to give it a lot of love and let it just be in its glory. I know that sounds sort of woo from California, but it's true. It's very primal to lay in water. And as a writer and artist and sort of a creator of things, I need to feel out of my left brain narrative all the time. I like to go into my organisms and, like, my organisms, my my organic state
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@Renee_Slay
Renee Slay
@Renee_Slay · 3:09

@FromSilence

So I feel like for me, it can be multiple places. I think the picture that you posted with this is actually an inspiring one. I could see poetry written about that. I could see your photography happening there. I'm not a photographer, as you would define it. I play around and I really do have a camera that just has the settings. I don't have all the attachments and whatever else
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@feliceskye
feliceskye
@feliceskye · 4:04
And I remember here in St. Louis, the Metro actually had little like people would have poetry. I guess it was some type of campaign or something that they had. And I was like, oh man, how dope would it be to have this poem complaining about the bus actually posted on the bus? Anyway, I digress. So like I said, those are my places of inspiration. And a really big inspiration is just leaving town and experiencing something new and coming back
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@FromSilence
From Silence
@FromSilence · 3:11

@GODISTHRIFTY

Good morning, and thank you for your wonderful reply to my question. I did want to clarify one thing first. The house itself, that's pictured there, I had wanted to visit for other things because I do like preserving the history of old places, since many of them are being torn down or lost frequently. Fire is a very frequent thing. Unfortunately that a lot of things are being lost, too
@FromSilence
From Silence
@FromSilence · 3:41

@DBPardes

So, yes, again, it's a different way of describing it, but that way that the sensory overload, or even choice of sensory overload, because it's not necessarily the shower is not truly overloading everything. It's the fact that I am disregarding everything else and just exercising those two or three senses, and it just unlocks a different part. So thank you. Thank you for sharing. I appreciate that. Thank
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@FromSilence
From Silence
@FromSilence · 3:47

@Renee_Slay

I started writing the poem on Little Life from Holding that snail in my Hand, because it's just like it's this tiny little thing, and it never sees past the bladed grass in front of it, but its life is happy. So it's so simple to have a happy life if you have simple expectations. And that's why I wanted to write that poem, is just holding a little snail in my hand
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From Silence
@FromSilence · 4:06

@feliceskye

But it's something where I need to focus some of my efforts, because, again, it's something I want to do. It's something I think would be more meaningful than just random poems about random topics that I do. Having something that actually fits together and describes something is something that I want to do. And if my goal is at some point to be worthy of having it collected somewhere, having something that actually follows that format would be good. So thank you
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@LaLa575
Lorraine Carey
@LaLa575 · 0:42
You? Yes. I really enjoy listening to your little podcast there, and I can relate to little places like that and especially old houses and old places. My inspiration comes from nature. I live in Florida and we have a lot of parks. There's a park in particular called Sawgrass Park that I go to, and it has just beautiful plants and trees, and I get inspired there. I kind of feel grounded
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