Creative Consciousness Begins with Love

Hey, hello there, friend!

For more than ten years, I haven’t watched the news. I learned early on how much it drained my energy and dimmed my creative flow. But with social media, some stories are almost impossible to ignore. And some days, the news feels heavy. Yesterday was one of those days for the United States, a tragedy that shook most of us, a reminder of how fragile life is and how quickly fear can spill into violence.

I want to be clear: this isn’t about politics. This is a call to action for us, as human beings, to spread love, not hate. In moments like these, our response matters. The way we choose to hold each other, the way we choose to speak, the way we choose to create, all of it can either multiply fear or multiply love.

That’s why today I want to recommend a book that has been a lighthouse for me in dark times: A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson. It’s a book about remembering who we really are when the world feels crushed. Williamson reminds us that every moment we face a choice: love or fear. One expands us, the other contracts us.

'Love on the Heart' Painting by Drica Lobo, signed 2021, sold

The book also offers practical wisdom for everyday living: cultivating love in relationships, in our work, in our bodies, and in those moments when our hearts feel heavy or divided.

One of the most quoted lines: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.” Speaks directly to the way fear can shrink us, and how love invites us to reclaim our power. I read those words a few years ago, and they stuck with me.

I hope you love this book as much as I did. And more than that, I hope it reminds you, as it reminded me, that choosing love, even in the darkest moments, is an act of courage.

This is a moment to unlearn fear. To remember love. To embody it, in our art, our words, our homes, our communities. I believe in the ripple effect of choosing love. And I believe we need it now more than ever.

And maybe this is what I mean when I talk about raising creative consciousness. Because creativity is not only about what we make, but how we choose to live, responding to fear with love, and allowing our lives to become a canvas for healing, connection, and hope.

Color Your Life!

Love, Drica