Welcome to Episode Fourteen of Juju Infusion – here to inspire, spark and refresh your creative spirit.
This week's episode is all about Paris.
I'm sharing some of the creative bounty that inspired me while there, plus announcing the Paris Booty Contest!
Quick links to people and places mentioned in this episode:
The Paper Cinema, Beth Orton, Baudade and Jeanette Winterson were all part of the Shakespeare and Company bookstore festival.
Join me in Paris for Curious Paris: Tap Your Creative Juju, October 19th – 25th.
Clara says
Another great post, Cynthia. I love getting a shot of creativity like this during my workday.
One of the wonderful things about travel for me is the way in which it opens me to creativity. I notice things I may never have noticed at home: a roofline, the ironwork on a door, the rich taste of a persimmon. Once I realized that, I knew that I had to find ways to bring that awareness back home with me and make them part of my daily life.
Which brings me back to your blog. Reading your posts is one of the ways I “keep my eye on the prize.” Thanks.
Bobbi says
Jeannette’s speech was good. Enjoyed her commentary on the need for art. I check your blog as a treat before I jump into the day. Or as an afternoon break. Working from home makes it easy to sneak a peek. Looking forward to Fridays. Well, I do anyway but now even more so!
carl fuermann says
thanks Cynthia for another awesome episode of Juju Infusion!!
Michael B says
OK, so I think this is my favorite JI video so far. At some point as I was watching it, I felt it it had great energy (well, except for Christian’s woeful expression, but in its way, even it seemed good, in-place) and spent the rest of the video wondering why it felt that way. Each segment carried that good vibe and I enjoyed it much right to the very end.
Afterward it dawned on me that each segment was just about living in the moment with you. I felt that this episode was really about you taking us with you and actually experiencing what you were experiencing with little explanation and mere documentation of each moment.
I’m not saying I don’t like the other, more personally expressive way. I’m not saying that at all. I just really liked what seemed like a different, experiential recording of your inspirations. As I prepare to take my own trip along the highways and byways of our own country, pen and paper in hand, there’s good information there for me.
Oh – and I REALLY enjoyed Jeanette Winterson’s presentation. A poignant message for those of us who are carrying the importance of art headlong into a world that seems to devalue the significance of it as time moves on.
Thanks for taking us along.
Clara,
Thank you for watching and commenting. And thanks for sharing how travel helps you be more creative. It sounds like hitting the refresh button on your creative browser! I am SO glad that my work can provide that for you without you having to leave home!
Bobbi,
Yes, Jeanette was AMAZING. I heard that she plans to post her whole speech on her web site. I hope so, because it was impeccable and absolutely inspiring. I cried and felt so inspired by her words.
I’m so happy that the show is an infusion for your creative week. Yeah! Thank you for commenting; I appreciate knowing my impact.
Michael,
Wow, thank you! Just goes to show we have NO idea what is going to resonate with others. I was unsure of this one. I edited my fingerpads off on this – it started at 24 minutes and I considered doing two parts!
Very cool that you loved it and I love the way you describe its impact on you. My friend Carl commented that my shows are always different, new formats and new ways of sharing. I hadn’t really thought about that but it seems to keep it fresh.
But I have to say the material was there and was so inspiring, it was easy to share this!
Next week I’ll be sharing all the juju I gathered for my novel, Chasing Sylvia Beach. Incredible stuff!
When do you leave for your trip? You are going to have a blast! Soak it all up and enjoy the freedom. It will be interesting (for me at least!) to see how the work you did in Make Writing a Happy Habit impacts your travels!
Thanks for commenting!
Bon voyage!
I’m leaving tonight! Crossing the cursed Mojave desert (as we Californians have to do whenever we travel eastward). I sent you a link to my satellite tracking map on facebook, so’s you can see where I am in your “spare” time. As always, netbook, writing pens, Moleskine on board. I’ll send photo and verbal postcards from the road.
Anyway, I REALLY did like this one. Thanks for posting your fun and inspirational vids.
Molto bene!