Reflections

  • Creative Aging Symposium Recap: Questions for Meaningful Exploration

    A guest post by Heidi Wagner, an incredible photographer and activist, the founder of The Passions Project. Heidi reflects on Creative Spark's 2023...
  • Pause for Poetry: Inspiration & Prompts

    A guest post by Heidi Wagner, an incredible photographer and activist, the founder of The Passions Project. Heidi reflects on Creative Spark's 2023...
  • Hot Button Topic

    Last month, Creative Spark presented Creating Joy at Work with the American Society on Aging conference. The room was packed, it was amazing. Every...
  • Pause for Play: Poetry Prompts

    In our annual Creative Aging Symposium, Jessica McCracken led Pause for Play, where we explored playful poetry prompts for a perspective shift. (Ho...
  • Setting Resolutions? Let's try wellbeing instead.

    A new year brings with it pressure to set resolutions, which often lead to disappointment in ourselves. Instead of setting a resolution, let's sup...
  • Technology as a Tool, Not an Intervention

    *Jetsons meme, unknown author “Those of us who are willing to rumble with vulnerability will not be threatened by the rise of the machines, becaus...
  • Embracing the Creative Pause

    The past year, I've thought a lot about 'the pause' as part of creativity. It's easy to judge ourselves when we aren't in the active development pa...
  • Navigating with a Joy Compass

    “What if instead of seeing aging as something to defeat and conquer, we were to embrace what gets better with age, and work to amplify these joys w...
  • Movement is Emotion

    “Movement is emotion,” Alice shared as I traced her outstretched arm. She wanted a gesture that expressed joy in motion. Alice has been moving her...
  • A Virtual Living Room

    By guest blogger, SharonM “Auntie Afrika” "The one thing that continues to resonate with me from the Creative Aging Symposium 2022 was the sense of...
  • Reflections on Blue

    From Gayle Wanamaker Gayle wrote this poetic response to the Creative Aging Symposium 2022, where jazz composer and pianist Tammy Hall performed he...
  • A Dash of Chaos as an Antidote to Apathy

    I once attended a training on care partnerships and memory loss where the trainer referred to the image of a skipping record. The idea was - when s...