is my goal in teaching it. Your goal, it is my hope, is to
encourage each other’s dreams as well as your own.
Creative ideas are brain-children. Like all children, they
must be birthed and this birthing is both a personal and
collective experience.
It was my privilege recently to midwife a book in my own
creative cluster. My friend Sonia Choquette, a gifted psychic
and teacher, was able to shape her long years of experience
into an invaluable tool kit, The Psychic Pathway. As her
friend, I received her book as nightly installments on my fax
machine. I would fax her back, believing in her when she,
like all artists, had trouble believing in herself.
Raised, like so many of us, to hide her creative light
under a bushel lest her dazzle diminish the light of others,
Sonia experienced doubt, fear and deepening faith as she
moved past these creative barriers into creative birth.
God is glorified in the fruitage of our lives.
JOEL S. GOLDSMITHI know there are those among you who fear undertaking
projects that seem to demand many dark nights of the soul.
Let me suggest to you that such nights may also be, in the
beautiful Spanish words, noches estrelladas—star-studded.
Like neighboring constellations, we can serve each other
both as guides and as company. In walking your artist’s