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Foolsgold: Making Something from Nothing and Freeing Your Creative Process

Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge offers a warm, personal guide to living more creatively. Drawing on her own experience of sorrow and loss, she shows how a return to wonder and joy can begin with small, playful acts. The book is full of practical exercises: writing poems, keeping a journal, going out to forage for materials, and building collages from objects found along the way. Readers are invited to try photography, dance, gardening, cooking, songwriting or verse, and to find the artist within whatever their starting point. Along the way, the author suggests that a creative life can expand us, inspire us, and even help us heal, while encouraging us to reconsider what truly matters most in our lives.

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