Description
Creativity isn’t the birthright of rare geniuses—it’s an essential, accessible toolkit for every person trying to survive.
In Ordinary Creativity: How to Survive with Joy, Heather Caliri unpacks how eugenicists, misogynists and racists skewed our understanding of creativity, reframes human ingenuity to include experiences like caregiving, disability, and suffering, and helps you claim your own way of being creative with fierce, unapologetic delight.
Note: Ordinary Creativity is currently available in an EPub version only. If you want to read on a Kindle, it’s best to purchase it from Amazon directly.
Endorsements
“Ordinary Creativity demystifies the creative life, reframing it into something accessible and achievable every day. In the familiar voice of a dear friend, Heather Caliri inspires her reader not to the heights of creative genius as the world would typically define it, but to the deep, inherent value of making, with an expansive, inclusive definition that will ignite long dormant sparks of creativity.”
—Joy McCullough, New York Times bestselling author of Blood Water Paint
“In Ordinary Creativity, Heather Caliri debunks the overly lofty ideals we often have about creativity and provides a beautifully expansive, inclusive perspective that fits with the messiness and grittiness of everyday life. She offers compassionate, informative, encouraging, and balanced guidance to the creative spirit within each of us that longs to be freely expressed. This is a gem of a book that has wonderful nuggets of wisdom on every page.”
—Dorcas Cheng-Tozun, author of Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul: How to Change the World in Quiet Ways
“Ordinary Creativity is a powerful and gentle invitation to those who wish to make something but have felt hindered—perhaps by time, perceptions of talent, cultural pressures, ideas about genius, or simply feeling like it doesn’t matter.
It does.
Don’t wait any longer. Journey with a wise guide whose encouragements, among them “Let’s be common, together” and “Start with delight,” steer us toward wholeness in a landscape where the new and flashy so often eclipse the good, slow, healing—and creative—work of a lifetime.”
—Daniel Bowman Jr., author of On the Spectrum: Autism, Faith, and the Gifts of Neurodiversity and A Plum Tree in Leatherstocking Country: Poems
“There’s no better resource for shaking off limiting beliefs around creativity and reconnecting to your inner spark than Heather Caliri’s book, Ordinary Creativity. Reading it will gently challenge you, make you laugh, and open up a world of possibility within you.”
—Jen Willhoite, Creator of Cobbleworks
About the Author
Heather Caliri is a writer, artist and editor whose work has appeared in Christianity Today, The Other Journal, Fathom Magazine, Image Journal, In Touch Magazine, and Geez Magazine. As a child, she was scouted for Broadway, called Kenny Rogers a liar to his face, and performed with the San Francisco Ballet. As an adult, she’s closely observed the ups and downs of creative lives, given that her immediate family and closest friends include an Emmy winner, a Grammy winner, a New York Times bestselling author, a painter, several textile artists, a woodworker, and a creative software entrepreneur. Her Creative Personality Test helps everyone see how–not whether–they’re creative. She lives in San Diego with her husband and two daughters.
Media Kit
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