Inspiration and Creative Imagination - the tools for building beyond our wildest dreams.
July 2, 2026
As a teacher, coach and guide, my task is to inspire others to live their infinite potential. To unlock doors into the divine spark we all hold as part of our human code. Recently I’ve been asked by several people how I go through my own creative process of an idea to a manifested book, poem or painting.
Simply put, it’s my creative imagination which holds the key, and keeping a wide perspective on what I see, read and observe. A tree is never just a tree. It’s a living sculpture or a green man in disguise. As a child in a geography lesson about the American mid west, I had the idea that the best way of telling the story of seed to grain to corn to flour to bread, was to imagine that I was an ear of corn. A living thing with a story to tell. My classmates thought I was bonkers and would fail the homework. That never crossed my mind, because the story of the ear of corn was so strong in my imagination, that to me it was real.
Without creative imagination Schubert would not have written his unfinished symphony. Klimt would not have painted ‘The Kiss’ and Romeo and Juliet would never have inspired generations of young lovers.
In Porto there is so much which inspires. The architecture. The history. The people. The food. The wine. The music. I sometimes get drunk not on the obvious potions, but by the sheer plenitude of treasures which turn imagination into inspired action. I’m now off to talk tree language to a tree I call Claude.
Julia - a tree hugger in Porto.
