The Habit of Creative Play: what to do when change scares you

by Hiro Boga | Creativity

As a creative person with a curious, questing mind, you are interested in so many things! You want to write that novel, weave a 3-D wall tapestry, and oh…illustrate a book for kids and the grownups who love them! You want to spend a semester in Florence,...

Nourishing the Body of Imagination

by Hiro Boga | Soul

There are certain principles that apply to all forms of exploration. Begin with a question that’s scratching at the back door of your consciousness. Or one that intrigues you. Or one that won’t leave you alone, that shows up unbidden in your dreams, in the shower,...

Imagination is Freedom

by Hiro Boga | Creativity, Sovereignty & Freedom

Imagination is freedom — it can transform the world. Here’s a wonderful story told by Robert Hass, about the power of imagination in action in one of the direst places in our collective history. “I’ll tell you a story that may or may not be...

Story-Making, World-Making

by Hiro Boga | Creativity, Stories

As I sit, writing, at my desk on this November morning, the sky is just beginning to emerge in shades of pale gray, streaked with persimmon along the Eastern horizon. The story the season tells is written in the clouds that hover high above the bay – reflected...

There’s No Place Like Home. . .Creating the story of your business

by Hiro Boga | Soul Business

The trouble with the future is, it hasn’t arrived yet. So we daydream that our house (our life!)-in which we sometimes feel so ill at ease–flies off in a hurricane, and lands SPLAT! on the Wicked Witch of the West, flattening her like a pancake. Hee-hee,...