Thanks for the help, Beth!! I hope to see your paintings at JRB Gallery and the Studio Gallery, too.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Book Signings at Paper Lion with Mrs. Oklahoma 2009
Thanks for the help, Beth!! I hope to see your paintings at JRB Gallery and the Studio Gallery, too. 
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Reserve a Spot Now for THE ART OF CREATIVE LIVING course in Fall, 2009
Kay Bishop, Workshop Facilitator
The Art of Creative Living course
Fall, 2009
405.642.5333
Pablo Picasso said, “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
The Art of Creative Living is for anyone interested in living more creatively through practicing an art; even more broadly, anyone interested in practicing the art of creative living.
Just as blood is a fact of our physical body, creativity is a fact of our spiritual body and nothing we must invent. We are literally created to create.
How do we get blocked? Somewhere between the bank, the school, and the carpool or between open house, women’s lib, and the lawnmower. Somewhere between menopause, infertility, hopes and dreams of us and others, and April 19, 1995.
Come play for thirteen weeks and discover, recover, or free your creative powers during two-hour sessions.
Specific objectives:
1. Practice permanent, practical tools to dissolve subtle blocks that we entertain which keep us from becoming the unique creative individuals we were each designed to be. In a sense, discover yourself as a work of art.
2. Develop the habit of daily journaling to engage the creator within.
3. Schedule a weekly solo date to receive creative insight, inspiration, and guidance.
4. Share your personalized creative recovery or discovery with an intimate group.
5. Homework (homeplay) is approximately one hour per day. Serious art is born from serious play!
Gather your friends together and pick a spot!
Only $200 for twelve sessions.
The Art of Creative Living course
Fall, 2009
405.642.5333
Pablo Picasso said, “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
The Art of Creative Living is for anyone interested in living more creatively through practicing an art; even more broadly, anyone interested in practicing the art of creative living.
Just as blood is a fact of our physical body, creativity is a fact of our spiritual body and nothing we must invent. We are literally created to create.
How do we get blocked? Somewhere between the bank, the school, and the carpool or between open house, women’s lib, and the lawnmower. Somewhere between menopause, infertility, hopes and dreams of us and others, and April 19, 1995.
Come play for thirteen weeks and discover, recover, or free your creative powers during two-hour sessions.
Specific objectives:
1. Practice permanent, practical tools to dissolve subtle blocks that we entertain which keep us from becoming the unique creative individuals we were each designed to be. In a sense, discover yourself as a work of art.
2. Develop the habit of daily journaling to engage the creator within.
3. Schedule a weekly solo date to receive creative insight, inspiration, and guidance.
4. Share your personalized creative recovery or discovery with an intimate group.
5. Homework (homeplay) is approximately one hour per day. Serious art is born from serious play!
Gather your friends together and pick a spot!
Only $200 for twelve sessions.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Want an autographed copy? See below!!!
Kay is available now for book signings, readings, workshops, book reviews, and creative workshops. Yes, creativity is a fact of life and can be coached!!! Send email requests to lightenup@cox.net
Short Story Published in MY MOM IS MY HERO
MY MOM IS MY HERO, edited by Susan Reynolds, is on the shelf at Barnes Noble and Border's if not sold out! Easy to order at Full Circle, Best of Books in Edmond, or http://www.amazon.com/.
My mom's story is one of 50 stories from all over the world selected to appear in this colorful anthology of stories honoring mothers released by Adams Media in time for Mother’s Day. Or to honor that special "mom" figure. You know who!
Fifty true stories are alternately poignant, sweet, humorous, heartbreaking and heartwarming. Moms captured are uniquely impressive, inspirational, colorful, funny, quirky, outrageous, determined, brave, inventive, imaginative, generous, kind forgiving, and –above all—memorable.
Read a few of the highlights of my mom's uniqueness, a single mom in he fifties who owned her own business, in “Lucille’s Beauty Salon.”
You are invited to attend:
BOOK SIGNING, APRIL 30, THURSDAY, AT PAPER LION, 33rd and Boulevard, EDMOND FROM 5-7PM. MUSIC, TOO.
BOOK SIGNING, MAY 3, SUNDAY, 2-4 P.M., BARNES NOBLE AT N. MAY AND MEMORIAL.
My mom's story is one of 50 stories from all over the world selected to appear in this colorful anthology of stories honoring mothers released by Adams Media in time for Mother’s Day. Or to honor that special "mom" figure. You know who!
Fifty true stories are alternately poignant, sweet, humorous, heartbreaking and heartwarming. Moms captured are uniquely impressive, inspirational, colorful, funny, quirky, outrageous, determined, brave, inventive, imaginative, generous, kind forgiving, and –above all—memorable.
Read a few of the highlights of my mom's uniqueness, a single mom in he fifties who owned her own business, in “Lucille’s Beauty Salon.”
You are invited to attend:
BOOK SIGNING, APRIL 30, THURSDAY, AT PAPER LION, 33rd and Boulevard, EDMOND FROM 5-7PM. MUSIC, TOO.
BOOK SIGNING, MAY 3, SUNDAY, 2-4 P.M., BARNES NOBLE AT N. MAY AND MEMORIAL.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Write Your Story then Tell Me What Happens!
MY FIRST SHORT, SHORT STORY
Once upon a time there was a person named _________________
_____________________________. Secretly, she wished that she
(my name)
______________________________________________.
(one different life)
One time I saw her _________________________________. Next
(a thing I enjoy doing)
thing I knew she was ______________________________________.
(one of the tiny changes)
Frankly, it wouldn't surprise me if she went wild and
__________________________________________________.
(something I don't have to do perfectly)
As matter of fact, I'd like it if she did that. I might just try
a few new things myself.
Once upon a time there was a person named _________________
_____________________________. Secretly, she wished that she
(my name)
______________________________________________.
(one different life)
One time I saw her _________________________________. Next
(a thing I enjoy doing)
thing I knew she was ______________________________________.
(one of the tiny changes)
Frankly, it wouldn't surprise me if she went wild and
__________________________________________________.
(something I don't have to do perfectly)
As matter of fact, I'd like it if she did that. I might just try
a few new things myself.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
WRITE YOUR RANT AND THEN SING OPERA
Writers really never know what they really think until they write it down. Sometimes I write on a napkin in a restaurant, in my journal, or on computer. If something (like an insurance company) or someone is bugging me, I just rapidly write down all I can on the topic. Then I quickly write from someone else's point of view about it. Then as an imaginary third party watching the scene from the sideline. (Never get confused and email this to anyone!! You will look scary or crazy.)
But, what usually happens in the middle of the rant is that another new, fresh voice chimes in. A new perspective on the issue. I feel a weight lift. Solutions pour out. If have gone from raw feelings to hope.
When I sing this rough rant in my fake opera voice, perspective shifts and I start laughing or crying because I am finally ranted out. I have hit the truth, or it hits me. I can't sing a lie. My frustration+creativity has turned into fun. Even if funny only to me.
The truth is . . . most everything is bearable, light and even funny once you get to the highest note of truth at the end of a well-ranted opera.
Maestro! "I'm the cheese in this office insurance panini. I belong on Saturday Night Live. Someone swoop me up."
But, what usually happens in the middle of the rant is that another new, fresh voice chimes in. A new perspective on the issue. I feel a weight lift. Solutions pour out. If have gone from raw feelings to hope.
When I sing this rough rant in my fake opera voice, perspective shifts and I start laughing or crying because I am finally ranted out. I have hit the truth, or it hits me. I can't sing a lie. My frustration+creativity has turned into fun. Even if funny only to me.
The truth is . . . most everything is bearable, light and even funny once you get to the highest note of truth at the end of a well-ranted opera.
Maestro! "I'm the cheese in this office insurance panini. I belong on Saturday Night Live. Someone swoop me up."
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
The Fajita Odor Eater
Bleh! I cannot stand to be gassed in a Mexican restaurant when the waiter serves up a smoking fajita on a platter right next to me. I do not need to see popping grease before I eat it or before a stranger eats it. Someone, please, invent a silent Dust Buster to follow that waiter out of the kitchen. Suck up the smoke and cracking grease so I don't have to smell it. I am choking to death here.
What would you love to see invented? Or, better yet, what can you invent? Be sure to get a patent. The poor fellow who invented the yellow happy face only made $45.
"Designed to Boost Morale: The original yellow happy face has its origins in Worcester, Massachusetts, on the drafting table of freelance graphic designer Harvey Ball. Joy Young, Promotions Director for a subsidiary of the State Mutual Assurance Company, ordered up a button design from Ball that would help boost morale at the company (which had recently gone through a merger). According to press reports, Ball originally drew just a smile, but feared cynical employees might simply wear the button upside down. So he added two small eyes for vertical reference. A sunshine-yellow background and, voila, the happy face was born.
"In an interview with the Associated Press in 1996, Ball recalled: "There are two ways to go about it (drawing a happy face). You can take a compass and draw a perfect circle and make two perfect eyes as neat as can be. Or you can do it freehand and have some fun with it. Like I did. Give it character.
"Ball is also on record as having said that 'never in the history of mankind or art has any single piece of art gotten such widespread favor, pleasure, enjoyment, and nothing has ever been so simply done and so easily understood in art.'
"State Mutual originally printed up 100 buttons, but when they became popular give-away items, many more were produced. A 1964 picture shows State Mutual vice president John Adams wearing one of the yellow buttons. Ball was paid a $45 fee for designing the button, and neither he nor State Mutual thought to trademark the image."
See http://www.creativepro.com/article/heavy-metal-madness-put-a-happy-face
What would you love to see invented? Or, better yet, what can you invent? Be sure to get a patent. The poor fellow who invented the yellow happy face only made $45.
"Designed to Boost Morale: The original yellow happy face has its origins in Worcester, Massachusetts, on the drafting table of freelance graphic designer Harvey Ball. Joy Young, Promotions Director for a subsidiary of the State Mutual Assurance Company, ordered up a button design from Ball that would help boost morale at the company (which had recently gone through a merger). According to press reports, Ball originally drew just a smile, but feared cynical employees might simply wear the button upside down. So he added two small eyes for vertical reference. A sunshine-yellow background and, voila, the happy face was born.
"In an interview with the Associated Press in 1996, Ball recalled: "There are two ways to go about it (drawing a happy face). You can take a compass and draw a perfect circle and make two perfect eyes as neat as can be. Or you can do it freehand and have some fun with it. Like I did. Give it character.
"Ball is also on record as having said that 'never in the history of mankind or art has any single piece of art gotten such widespread favor, pleasure, enjoyment, and nothing has ever been so simply done and so easily understood in art.'
"State Mutual originally printed up 100 buttons, but when they became popular give-away items, many more were produced. A 1964 picture shows State Mutual vice president John Adams wearing one of the yellow buttons. Ball was paid a $45 fee for designing the button, and neither he nor State Mutual thought to trademark the image."
See http://www.creativepro.com/article/heavy-metal-madness-put-a-happy-face
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