CHECK OUT MY BOOK! WILD BLUE YONDER
When I was a little girl, I’d climb into the front seat of my Grandma Donna’s old blue Buick and buckle up for an adventure. Plush blue seats, hot silver seat belt with a gem-like button in the middle that I’d click in, she’d shift the car into gear, gravel crunched beneath the tires as we pulled out of the drive of our family farm and onto the country road. Once we picked up some speed, she’d pound the dash with exuberance and launch into song,
“Off we go, into the wild blue yonder! Flying high, into the sum!”
And off we’d go, up and down dusty country roads looking for beauty. Beauty in the horizon, in the changing colors of the sky, beauty in the ditch flowers, and the birds that loved them.
No longer flat, fly over-territory, it was a runway for taking off into the Wild Blue Yonder.
A ride in the car with my grandmother and I could see the world in a different way; I could see it as an artist.
Seeing the world, experiencing the world as an artist is what I believed awakened the seed in me-I am an artist.
Those simple, humble adventures on backcountry roads and into the Wild Blue Yonder helped me to see and experience something profound. The Wild Blue Yonder was a version of reality, of life, that I touched, was something where a truth of a reality in me, an expansive, wondrous one, touched and connected with a truth of the world out there – one full of endless possibilities and exciting discoveries!
My journey to becoming an artist, though, did not mirror the arc of that old military tune, “Off we go, into the wild, blue yonder!” My path was not linear or one of flying high and then just soaring off into the horizon as a fully hatched, fully realized, artist. That girl that loved creativity, imagination, beauty, art was always there, but for years she took a back seat, while a different part of me took a different tour; one that included a finance degree and then becoming a lawyer.
It would be many years after those car rides with Grandma Donna before that seed, I am an artist would start to crack through.”
…This is the beginning of the forward for my new book, Wild Blue Yonder. This book includes several of my own poems as well as prompts you can give to your own imagination to unleash your own creative genius and bring your art to life!
It occurred to me later in the process of editing this book that publishing the poetry is also a prompt in the way of an example. Therefore, this entire book is both a creative work while also being an example and invitation to you of how you might discover your own path to liberated, thriving creative expression in your chosen mediums, as well as your unique creative, extraordinary way of living that helps you break through your own “Wild, Blue Yonder,” and fills your life with the energy of being fully alive.
In the spirit of that, I wanted to share some of the fruits of that process and “the how-to,” in case you find yourself in need of a breakthrough now and then, whether specifically in your own art form or in life.
I hope you enjoy it. As a collection of m own poems and creative invitations, I hope it helps you in discovering your own and lead to many meaningful creative breakthroughs. Click below to purchase on Amazon, or you can also find it at Barnes & Noble and many other Indy bookstores online.
more about LEAH
I provide world-class coaching to world-class performers and leaders in the arts, business, and social good. The work is about fulfilling your greatest potential by cultivating a way of being that energizes, strengthens, and enlivens every aspect of your life, including your mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health and well-being, relationships, finances, life experiences, creativity, and the desire for meaningful work.
Over the last twelve years, I’ve established a track record of helping people break through barriers to achieve “impossible” dreams, including my own journey from attorney to artist and Master Life Coach. My genius is helping you unleash yours.
I have an undergraduate degree in Finance and a law degree, both from the University of Iowa. I am a trained and certified Transformative Mediator, a Pilates and yoga teacher, a self-taught artist, poet, writer, entrepreneur, a Certified Life Coach and a Certified Master Life Coach (both of those trainings and certifications through the The Life Coach School, the best boutique coaching school in the country).
I’m married to Brad, farm boy turned college professor, and mother to three amazing children (ages 7, 10, and 11). Our family lives on forty acres in rural Michigan with Izzy the cat, Luna the golden doodle, and 16 chickens.
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