Inspiration and More

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“Learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist.” – Pablo Picasso

The other day I was with my five-year-old son, Mr. D, in a room of storage lockers. He was checking everything out and said, “Look at that wonder.”

I followed his gaze to a padlock that had a piece of tape with a question mark on it. My interpretation was that the owner of the lock was unknown. But I liked Mr. D’s better – just look at that wonder.

I get so much inspiration from my kids. They see things with new eyes and help me to peel away my assumptions that cover over so many things.

But there are other ways to break out of that mold and we talk about some in the latest episode of the Sharing the Heart of Matter podcast. Vicki Atkinson and I are with author, graphic designer, and blogger, Dave Williams.

I love reading something that gets my creative juices going. But even better in the community of podcasting and blogging is catching a ride on everyone else’s enthusiasm!

In this episode, Dave Williams, tells us about the inspiration he gleaned from reading Felicia Day’s book, “Embrace Your Weird.”

Felicia’s book is more than a read, it’s an experience of exercises to break us out of our creative ruts. Dave shares his take on what inhibits our natural flow and some of the things that inspire him.

This is a great episode with the incredibly talented and creative Dave Williams. We get to draft off of his inspiration, Felicia Day’s book, and the flow of creative sparks.

I’m certain you’ll enjoy the scenic and inspiring places we go when we share the power of story.

We know you’ll love it!

Search (and subscribe!) for Sharing the Heart of the Matter on Apple, Amazon, Spotify or Pocket Casts OR Listen to it from your computer on Anchor: Episode 82: “Embrace Your Weird” with Author Dave Williams

AND subscribe to our YouTube channel to see a video clip of each story: @SharingtheHeartoftheMatter.

Transcript for this episode: Episode 82 transcript

Links for this Episode:

Dave Williams – writings and drawings (wordpress.com)

‘Bubba Ho-Tep’ and feeling more okay about creating weirdness – Dave Williams (wordpress.com)

Dave’s review of Felicia Day’s book can be found here.

“Embrace Your Weird” by Felicia Day – linked here.

(featured photo from Pexels)

37 thoughts on “Inspiration and More”

  1. “Draft off.” It has been a long time since I encountered that phrase and probably the first time I have seen it used so well in the way you did. Thanks, Wynne!

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  3. This podcast was so good!! And so timely! I have always considered myself and little different from others, especially when it comes to creativity; and I love to create! I love to draw and create graphics and basically anything I can imagine. It’s the inner child I have reconnected with and never want to suppressed again. However, I also have anxiety about sharing my creativity with others because of my fear of it not being good enough, or it not turning out how I imagined. I say the podcast is timely because last night I wanted to draw—I love drawing flowers—and decided not to because I knew it wouldn’t be perfect. So I didn’t draw.

    Okay, I’ll stop right here because I could go on and on about how this podcast resonated with me. Thank you so much for sharing! It made me feel more confident about embracing my weird.😊

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  5. When you guys post about the podcast, I always find it interesting to see what you might focus on versus Vicki. It really shows how our minds work and how we pick up similar but different things from the same conversation. Yes, yes, like your experiences with Mr D, I find it creatively inspiring! Ha ha!

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  6. Wynne and Vicki, you had me at Felicia Day! I remember her well from her character Charlie on Supernatural. She was quirky there and very smart. It may be “weird” that a grown woman can say she watched every season of Supernatural, haha, but so be it. I love the ideas she presents, clearing the way to get to that core of creativity and how we conform to suddenly receiving grades for our creativity which sets up a model of “am I good enough?” well into adulthood. Thank you to your guest, Dave Williams for shining a light on Day’s book. He presented it extremely well. Oh and P.S. I loved the surprise appearance of Mr. D! That was ADORABLE. 🙂 🙂

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    2. Oh, Melanie. I’m laughing! I love that you noticed that surprise appearance. You really were watching! And your enthusiasm for Felicia Day and creativity — so, so good! Thank you for this wonderful and enthusiastic comment!!

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  7. Just read Vicki’s post. And looking forward to listening. Coincidentally I mentioned Picasso in my comment to her. The quote you started with is also a quote I used in one of my videos. I think you’ve seen it.
    I’ll link it here, but you can delete the link if you want to. Don’t want to hijack your blog. 😁

    The point is that being creative is superbly important to us in order to understand ourselves. If it brings joy to others then that’s a great bonus.

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  9. Mr. D has a great perception on calling the question marked locker as wonder. A mystery box! I’m totally with you about being inspired by kids. And it’s a great story to accompany our podcast chat!

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  11. Yes Wynne, we must have fun and be silly when we create. Sometimes we have to step outside of life’s conditioned way of thinking in order to surge and soar. Remember that excitement of coloring outside the lines. I’m all in for the dinosaur on a skateboard or in a Hummer! 😜🚙😁

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  14. This was a wonderful conversation, Wynne. And we are so blessed as parents to have kids that nurture the weirdness in us so naturally and with so much fun and joy.

    I love Mr D’s call for wonder. May it be a guiding force for him and Miss O in this new school year ahead.

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    1. I love this observation so much, “And we are so blessed as parents to have kids that nurture the weirdness in us so naturally and with so much fun and joy.”

      Yes! Thank you so much for listening!

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