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It’s that time again. A brand new week packed to the brim with brand new possibilities. How will you play today? If you need some inspiration, I got you covered. Happy Monday, Everyone!
- Looking for some ideas for ideas to stretch your inner kid at home? Take a look at these 20 suggestions to get you started playing more today.
- Feeling like you want to play but experiencing some anxiety at the moment? This simple breathing exercise can help bring you back to the present moment and help you to reclaim your creativity.
- Doodling, coloring, sculpting, and generally letting your imagination take the wheel has always felt good, and now scientists have a clearer sense why art reduces the stress hormone cortisol in people that engage in art making for 45 minutes. And the best part? Being “good” at it isn’t required to enjoy the benefit. Next time you get home from a stressful day at the office, why not bust out the colored pencils, glitter, and construction paper? We’ve got nothing to lose, except lots of stress.
- Have you seen this Boston based artist who sketched every single train station stop in the city? Such a cool example of working with what you have to be curious about, wherever you are. There’s no wrong way to be creative, and anything can become art.
- Any Shakespeare nerds out there, like me? This short video explains and demonstrates the original accent that Shakespeare and his actors would have spoken in at that time. This ain’t your standard BBC accent folks. Weird and wonderful!
