A Sunday morning ritual

For creators and iconoclasts

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Have you ever been curious about where inspiration comes from and how some artists seem to have so much of it? Orson Scott Card said, “Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.” How can we, as individual artists and humans, start engaging with the world around us more creatively? What (and where) are those “thousand story ideas” we pass by without noticing?

Each week on Sunday mornings, Creative / Seminary, a weekly Substack newsletter from me, Misha Lazzara, will offer a new concept designed to inspire readers to think more deeply about the world around them. Whether it’s a person, place, object or period of time, we will explore and engage with these topics on a deeper level through readings, art, popular culture representations, philosophy, science and music. Topics will span history and the globe, as diverse as crows, Carl Jung’s archetypes, birch trees, the history of coffee, sonnets, moon phases, Murasaki Shikibu and many more.

Creative writing “assignments” will be provided every week to help you grow and maintain your creative muscles and uncover your own creative processes. Even if you don’t see yourself as a writer, or (gasp!) even a creative person, I believe that everyone can benefit from a regular creative…