Foolsgold
Making Something from Nothing and Freeing Your Creative Process
1st Edition
Published on 21. January 2009
256 pages
978-0-307-49554-9 (ISBN)
Description
In this personal, inspiring guide to a creative life, Wooldridge shares her own journey of the heart—from loss and grief to a return to wholeness and joy. Offering poetry exercises, journal writing, and other practices to encourage creative play—including foraging and assembling collages with found objects—Foolsgold: Making Something from Nothing and Freeing Your Creative Process will motivate you to reevaluate what's most important in your world.
Through intimate stories about transforming what life brings your way, the book will help open your heart to more creativity—DELIGHT AND VITALITY—whether it's through photography, dance, gardening, cooking, songwriting, or poetry. Foolsgold includes dozens of suggestions to help you free the artist within by cultivating a creative lifestyle that will not only expand and inspire you but may also ground and heal you.
Through intimate stories about transforming what life brings your way, the book will help open your heart to more creativity—DELIGHT AND VITALITY—whether it's through photography, dance, gardening, cooking, songwriting, or poetry. Foolsgold includes dozens of suggestions to help you free the artist within by cultivating a creative lifestyle that will not only expand and inspire you but may also ground and heal you.
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Susan G. Wooldridge conducts writing workshops privately, through Poets & Writers, Inc., and with the California Poets in the Schools program. She is the author of PoemCrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words, a Book Sense Pick and a long-running Quality Paperback Book Club selection and Writer's Digest Book Club selection. She has also written a chapbook of poems, Bathing with Ants.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: At Creek's Edge
- Part 1 - Creekside Alchemy
- Chapter 1 - Wisdom Beach
- Chapter 2 - Seaweed Heart
- Chapter 3 - Moving The Dishes
- Chapter 4 - Big Toe Within Arm's Reach
- Chapter 5 - Queen Of Shell Beach
- Chapter 6 - Touching Down In Pensacola
- Chapter 7 - Daffodils And W-3
- Chapter 8 - One-Mile Moon And Blaubeuren
- Chapter 9 - Oasis
- Chapter 10 - On Asking
- Chapter 11 - Poppa's Owl
- Chapter 12 - Poppa's Rowboat
- Chapter 13 - Creekside Alchemy Gathering Beauty
- Chapter 14 - Telephone Kaddish
- Chapter 15 - Wrinkle Nose
- Chapter 16 - Sweet Surrender
- Part 2 - God's Mini-Storage
- Chapter 17 - Fellini On Giving Up
- Chapter 18 - Damselflies Emerging
- Chapter 19 - Freeing The Creek
- Chapter 20 - Always Green Inside
- Chapter 21 - The Language Of Red
- Chapter 22 - Digging Up The Artemesia
- Chapter 23 - God's Mini-Storage
- Chapter 24 - Poppa's Ashes
- Chapter 25 - Godseye
- Chapter 26 - Angels In Encinal A Pretty How Town
- Chapter 27 - First Words
- Chapter 28 - Dragonfly Haiku
- Chapter 29 - Mirror Kiss Vernous
- Chapter 30 - Clock's Breath
- Chapter 31 - Diamond Dust
- Chapter 32 - Foolsgold And Ethel's Landing
- Part 3 - World As Studio
- Chapter 33 - Being A Horse
- Chapter 34 - Bopper's Songs Rolling With The Muse
- Chapter 35 - The Undersong
- Chapter 36 - Nichtalelloudi Would You Be Willing
- Chapter 37 - Zomoli
- Chapter 38 - Write Crazy Love Poems
- Chapter 39 - Underground Soup
- Chapter 40 - Strawberries
- Chapter 41 - Artist Of Plants
- Chapter 42 - Entering The Blue
- Chapter 43 - Risking Dance
- Chapter 44 - Ooti And Vov
- Chapter 45 - Sun Dog Flying Heart In Lost Hills
- Chapter 46 - High Hopes The Mermaid's Daughter
- Chapter 47 - World As Studio
- Chapter 48 - The Only Gold
- Credits
- About The Author
- Copyright
