The Bodacious Book of Succulence: Daring to Live Your Succulent Wild LIife

The Bodacious Book of Succulence: Daring to Live Your Succulent Wild LIife
By Sark

Book Description

I wish for this book to catapult you out of bed and smack into the center of one of your dreams, or lure you back to bed, where you will lie helplessly laughing at all your mistakes and frozen moments.

I wish for this book to free the part of your soul that longs to write epic novels, recite Yeats by heart, play a musical instrument by magic, or perform in a play about your life that you create and design. Most of all, I want this book to give you a boost up over the fence that prevents you from moving forward and inward.

 

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Book Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45114 in Books
• Published on: 1998-05-08
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

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Editorial Reviews

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Marc Allen

author of Visionary Business

SARK is a true creative spirit….She walks her talk, helping everyone she meets to quit taking themselves so seriously and to truly enjoy their magical lives.

Hal Stone, Ph.D., and Sidra Stone, Ph.D.

authors of Embracing Your Inner Critic

SARK doesn’t promise easy answers….But through her inspiring ideas for growing, enjoying, and living fully, she shows us how to bounce back.

Ellen Bass

author of The Courage to Heal

SARK’s enthusiasm for life is contagious, her delight in the small pleasures inspirational. She has a way of being starkly honest and lighthearted at the same time — a real gift.

Maya Angelou

author of The Heart of a Woman

We, in this world, and this weary old world itself, have a great gaping need for SARK. Let’s call for more and more SARK to fill every child’s book bag and each attache case.

 

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Maya Angelou author of The Heart of a Woman We, in this world, and this weary old world itself, have a great gaping need for SARK. Let’s call for more and more SARK to fill every child’s book bag and each attache case.

About the Author
Here’s SARK, filled with faults and still succulent!

 

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Customer Reviews

Bodacious Book of Succulence
I love Sark… I have many of her books and couldn’t wait to get this one. It lives up to the rest.

Bodacious, Bold and Brilliant
SARK hit another homer with this one! A follow up to her successful book, Succulent Wild Woman, this book welcomes people from all walks of life to be bodacious and succulent and enjoy life! It’s her own way of saying CARPE DIEM! Thanks Susan!

What a Fun Book
I loved this book. It has a lot of great information in it and it is written in a most enjoyable, colorful way. A refreshing point of view without beating you up. Highly recommended for all.

The Vein of Gold

The Vein of Gold
By Julia Cameron

From Booklist
Cameron’s The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (1992) worked so well for so many people it became a best-seller, thus turning Cameron into a creativity guru for artists of all kinds, but especially for writers. Cameron’s mind-freeing exercises are the basis for many a workshop and writers’ group, and the wisdom she has gained through teaching has inspired her to develop new and even more probing techniques for liberating what she believes is our innate creativity. Cameron characterizes her teachings as “a process of creative individuation and emergence,” or, to use that dreadful New Age phrase, of freeing the inner child. To her credit, Cameron is perfectly aware of readers’ resistance to such approaches, but she forges ahead nonetheless, reminding us that a closed mind is antithetical to creativity. She encourages readers to explore various “kingdoms” of sight, sound, story, attitude, relationship, spirituality, and possibility both in her narrative and in work sheet^-based exercises, all aimed at mining that “vein of gold,” our creative heart. Donna Seaman

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Customer Reviews

The Vein Runs Deep
Plumbing the depths to find the creative you is done as ever it can be done with this book. Julia Cameron takes the reader on a series of journies to find the nature of relationships, spirituality, the senses of sight and sound,the nature of one’s attitudes all leading to the discovery that all things are possible. When those possibilites are realized they are expored and it is that exploration that opens up the creative soul.
A great book.

The Gold-digger…
I have made a permanent connection. With who you ask? Me. What made me think I was disconnected? I just knew like you know. Traumatic life experiences during childhood, tragic episodes, etc. It doesn’t really matter how you got disconnected with your inner artist child only that it’s possible to reconnect right now if you pick up Julia Cameron’s book: The Artist Way and work through the exercises. Your life will change for real. The Vein of Gold (the sequel to the Artist’s Way) focuses on finding your specific source of treasure/talent. Both books ensure that you will stay well-connected to your inner artist child and not lose him/her ever again.

There are no short cuts, but Julia Cameron’s program works. I don’t know why it works, but it does. Before you do one more thing to improve or change your life buy both books and do the exercises faithfully. I still journal, take artist dates and buy little gifts for my inner artist child. Why? It works, but I would have never made the connection without these two wonderful books. The books are like treasure maps to find the treasure (the gold) in you. You and you alone are your own gold-digger.

Vein of Gold- a winner!
Vein of Gold has met my expectations and beyond. As someone who has never felt “creative” it has helped me to broaden my defintion of what that means.It has practical exercises that are reasonable and useful as I continue my self-discovery of what being creative means. I highly recommend it.

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
By Natalie Goldberg

For more than twenty years Natalie Goldberg has been challenging and cheering on writers with her books and workshops. In her groundbreaking first book, she brings together Zen meditation and writing in a new way. Writing practice, as she calls it, is no different from other forms of Zen practice —”it is backed by two thousand years of studying the mind.”

This new edition, which marks almost twenty years since the original book’s publication, includes a new preface in which Goldberg expresses her trademark enthusiasm for writing practice, as well as a depth of appreciation for the process that has come with time and experience. Also included is an interview with the author in which she reflects on the relationship between Zen sitting practice and writing, the importance of place, and the power of memory.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4425 in Books
• Published on: 2005-12-06
• Released on: 2005-12-06
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Creative License, The: Giving Yourself Permission to Be The Artist You Truly Are

Creative License, The: Giving Yourself Permission to Be The Artist You Truly Are
By Danny Gregory

When Danny Gregory’s life was turned upside down by tragedy, he learned to cope by teaching himself to draw. The result was a complete transformation of his life, his priorities, his career, and the way he saw the world. In handwritten chapters full of his lush watercolor illustrations, Danny now offers readers a program for reconnecting to their own creative energies, using drawing as an example. He gently instructs us in the art of allowing ourselves to fail, giving up the expectation of perfection and opening our eyes to the beauty around us. The result is the permission to express ourselves fully and take part in the creative process without fear. Artist or not, readers of all stripes will find inspiration in this unique and beautiful book.

Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention

Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Creativity is about capturing those moments that make life worth living. The author’s objective is to offer an understanding of what leads to these moments, be it the excitement of the artist at the easel or the scientist in the lab, so that knowledge can be used to enrich people’s lives. Drawing on 100 interviews with exceptional people, from biologists and physicists to politicians and business leaders, poets and artists, as well as his 30 years of research on the subject, Csikszentmihalyi uses his famous theory to explore the creative process. He discusses such ideas as why creative individuals are often seen as selfish and arrogant, and why the tortured genius is largely a myth. Most important, he clearly explains why creativity needs to be cultivated and is necessary for the future of our country, if not the world.

 

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #38045 in Books
• Published on: 1997-06-18
• Released on: 1997-05-09
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 464 pages

Customer Reviews

Interesting
I especially liked the part where he says that a good chunk of Eulers mathematical theorems came towards the latter part of his life and when he was blind. I was especially interested in the linkage between age and creativity since I’m in my early 30’s & wanted to make sure that I still have some juice left in me. 🙂

Excellent book
The description posted here doesn’t do the book justice – I own a copy and still made 8 pages of notes for myself. Typed pages! Dr. Csikszentmihalyi distills and highlights the creative moments in life and how to create more creative moments in your own. It is not dry reading – the interviews and comments from his pool of world-class ‘creative’ people was very enjoyable and I liked that portion the least! Here’s one of my favorite quotes: ‘Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives for several reasons.. First, most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the results of creativity.

We share 98 percent of our genetic makeup with chimpanzees. What makes us different – our language, values, artistic expression, scientific understanding, and technology – is the result of individual ingenuity that was recognized, rewarded, and transmitted through learning. Without creativity, it would be difficult indeed to distinguish humans from apes.’

Long and deep but very interesting
Very interesting and detailed book. Helps explain the true reality and complexity of creativity – that it is a system of multiple environmental, technology and human personality elements which in combination and interaction bring about new products and processes.

The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size

    

The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size
By Julia Cameron

From the bestselling author of The Artist’s Way, a revolutionary diet plan: Use art to take off the pounds!

Over the course of the past twenty-five years, Julia Cameron has taught thousands of artists and aspiring artists how to unblock wellsprings of creativity. And time and again she has noticed an interesting thing: Often, in uncovering their creative selves her students also undergo a surprising physical transformation-invigorated by their work, they slim down. In The Writing Diet, Cameron illuminates the relationship between creativity and eating to reveal a crucial equation: creativity can block overeating.

This inspiring weight-loss program, which can be used in conjunction with Cameron’s groundbreaking book on the creative process, The Artist’s Way, directs readers to count words instead of calories, to substitute their writing’s “food for thought” for actual food. Using journaling to examine their relationship with food-and to ward off unhealthy overeating -readers will learn to treat food cravings as invitations to evaluate what they are truly craving in their emotional lives.

The Writing Diet presents a brilliant plan for using one of the soul’s deepest and most abiding appetites-the desire to be creative-to lose weight and keep it off forever.

I’m a creativity expert, not a diet expert. So why am I writing a book about weight loss? Because I have accidentally stumbled upon a weight-loss secret that works. For twenty-five years I’ve taught creative unblocking, a twelve-week process based on my book The Artist’s Way. From the front of the classroom I’ve seen lives transformed-and, to my astonishment, bodies transformed as well. It took me a while to recognize what was going on, but sure enough, students who began the course on the plump side ended up visibly leaner and more fit. What’s going on here? I asked myself. Was it my imagination, or was there truly a “before” and an “after”? There was!

-from The Writing Diet