{"id":307,"date":"2004-03-10T00:05:38","date_gmt":"2004-03-10T08:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/03\/10\/creative-spelunking\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:18:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:18:26","slug":"creative-spelunking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/03\/10\/creative-spelunking\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Spelunking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I met with a friend for tea, and discussion meandered to the topics of personal growth and journaling. She hadn&#8217;t journaled in a long time and wanted to start again. We tossed around ideas about how to creatively tap into and inspire ourselves in places we feel stuck. I mentioned to her a book I owned, that I&#8217;ve just discovered is also online. The author is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthy.net\/CreativeJournal\/\">Lucia Capacchione<\/a>; she has written <a href=\"http:\/\/allconsuming.net\/item.cgi?isbn=1564145387\">The Creative Journal<\/a> as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/allconsuming.net\/item.cgi?isbn=1564145581\">The Power of Your Other Hand<\/a>, among many other books.<\/p>\n<p>I told my friend I&#8217;d search online for links related to this; I&#8217;ve just emailed the following to her:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.creative-journal.com\/\">Creative-Journal.com<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativejournaling.homestead.com\/\">Creative Journaling<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journal-writing.webdjinni.net\/journal-types\/writer-journal-creative.html\">Creative Journaling and Writing Daily Exercises<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also suggested a collage party, or a &#8220;bad art&#8221; party (where the point is to have fun creating without obsessing over whether it&#8217;s good enough).  She liked that idea.  I know several people who would respond enthusiastically to an invitation.  Now I just need to <em>do<\/em> it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I met with a friend for tea, and discussion meandered to the topics of personal growth and journaling. She hadn&#8217;t journaled in a long time and wanted to start again. We tossed around ideas about how to creatively tap into and inspire ourselves in places we feel stuck. I mentioned to her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13037,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/13037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}