{"id":971,"date":"2012-11-15T03:00:44","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T03:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karyngood.com\/blog\/?p=971"},"modified":"2012-11-14T14:23:34","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T14:23:34","slug":"nanny-mcmuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karyngood.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/nanny-mcmuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanny McMuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m always intrigued over discussions about creative muses. The names, the personalities, the sense of their effectiveness or the absence of them. I think it\u2019s largely due to the sense that my own muse plays a more background role. I received a present from my sister some years ago, a miniature sculpture of a smallish doll with short strands of thread and yarn sparking out of her head. My sister said the strands represented ideas. She doesn\u2019t have a name but I\u2019ve always loved the notion of her and she sits patiently on my desk ever ready to encourage ideas. A symbol of creativity.<\/p>\n

A comfort.<\/p>\n

A guiding spirit or a source of inspiration according The Free Dictionary.com. I don\u2019t think of my muse as in attendance or absent, but simply a lurking spirit with those ideas sparking out of her head, smiling, never naughty but always engaging. At least, that\u2019s what comes to mind when I think of her at all.<\/p>\n

Until I watched the movie Nanny McPhee. It struck me that she was a perfect representation of a creative muse.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is something you should understand about the way I work: When you need me, but do not want me, then I will stay. When you want me, but no longer need me, then I have to go.\u201d\u00a0 Nanny McPhee<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>There when you need her, reminding you of the necessity to keep writing no matter how hard times are but ready to back off and let you be your creative self when the juices are flowing. With her looks representing a troubled soul when times are tough, but softening as the person\u2019s spirit eases and finds its way.<\/p>\n

Muses are as individual and unique as the people that claim them. They have a will of their own. They plot, motivate, and inspire be they corporeal or ethereal. Whatever works.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s your idea of Muse? What do you think of mine?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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