Caroline Allen
So the Earth has a chance to be a somebody Photo by Debby Hudson The prevailing wisdom on social media is: Go Big or Go Home. More followers, more power, more sales. More. More. More. Take. Take. Take. I’m an “expert” they yell from memes and quotes. Follow me! Follow me! What if instead of being big, we go small. What if going small is truly the way to go home?…
How do we heal our relationship with money? I'm not just talking about making more money or acquiring more possessions? I'm talking about healing our integrity with money. I'm talking about healing our relationship with the earth. In my most recently released fourth novel, WATER, I wrote a scene about a woman in a pub burning money. She does this as a joke, as an experiment to see how others will…
Mon, 12 Oct 2020 21:53:46 +0000 September 8, 2020 3 p.m. I’m sitting at my desk in my home office working on a client project. Outside the window, fat dramatic of burnt orange and deep purple float on the horizon. Earlier I’d been outside filming the shift from blue sky to lavender and burnt citrus cloud cover. It looks beautiful and scary and other-worldly. I’m not overly worried. We’ve had this…
Tue, 13 Oct 2020 17:36:13 +0000 WATER ranked No. 1 in Spiritual Healing and other categories in the Kindle Store. ART IS OUR ACTIVISM Pandemic, death of a friend, wildfires, elections -- let nothing stop you in the pursuit of your creative purpose. Art is activism! In the past few months, like everyone else globally, I’ve been sideswiped by the pandemic. Being isolated from friends, the lack of external entertainment, the…
Wed, 14 Oct 2020 17:43:46 +0000 Originally Published in Blue Lyra Review, Feb. 2015 The greatest gift I ever received was a book I never read. The winter I turned eleven, I sat at the desk in the dormer window, waiting. We got the desk at a yard sale, and it was supposed to be for all seven of us kids, but somehow I’d taken it over. In the basement, I…
Thu, 15 Oct 2020 19:06:40 +0000 The Use of Archetypes in my novel Water Water, my fourth novel, opens with a dark night of the soul. The protagonist, Pearl, is 28 years old and has just repatriated to the States from living abroad. The relentless capitalistic, pragmatic nature of the U.S. has plunged her into despair. She feels desperate for soul. “Metaphor is the missing legend. I’m living in a country that…
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Wed, 21 Oct 2020 19:45:24 +0000 Artists and writers face a lot of rejection. People will tell you to “get over it.” They’ll say: “Who the hell cares what other people think?” I say: Don’t get over it, get into it. carolineallen.com I’ve spent my life peeling back the layers to find my authentic creative voice. As a journalist in Tokyo, London, throughout Asia, and in Seattle, I focused on giving…
Thu, 03 Dec 2020 16:49:53 +0000 7 a.m. Dreams swirl around me as I roll out of bed. My dreams are a pivotal part of my creative life, informing my art, novel writing, coaching. They sink in and come out of my hands or through my voice in mysterious ways. For me, the night time is as rich as anything I do during the day. 7:45 a.m. At my desk writing…