Creative Solutions and Inspirations from the Modern Day Muses

Muse Profile: Marge

Excerpted from the book The Nine Modern Day Muses and a Bodyguard: 10 Guides to Creative Inspiration for Artists, Poets, Lovers, and Other Mortals Wanting to Live a Dazzling Existence by Jill Badonsky, M.Ed.

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Marge

MUSE OF
Okay-now-let's-get-started

MEANING OF NAME
Midwestern, no-nonsense approach to getting started and staying with it

DOMAIN
Knowing that just getting to the work will get it done

SYMBOL
Symbol of Marge
HOW MARGE CAN MUSE YOU
The Just-Get-Started Muse

THE SELECTION of MARGE

In 1996, the Muses went to see the movie Fargo. In the movie an unflappable sheriff named Marge Gundersen resolves the gnarly crimes that happen in North Dakota despite her challenges of pregnancy, snow, dense deputies and an uncooperative car salesman. Marge’s no nonsense mid-western attitude gets the job started, and without moodiness, complaints or drama, gets the job done. The Muses feel they ended up going to that movie because the Marge character was a good inspiration for a Muse. Especially because the modern day mortal is constantly caught in crimes of the creative process: procrastination and avoidance.

BOTTOM LINE

We are here for a divinely creative plan. There are oodles of things that can steal us from creative expression and we have the choice to do our work anyway. The discipline to engage in our passions can be made easy with routine, reasonable goals, small steps and focus. The result is that the magnificence we are meant to create comes to life. •

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About the Author | More by Jill Badonsky
Jill Badonsky, M.Ed. is a nationally recognized workshop leader, artist, performer, humorist, and author of the book, The Nine Modern Day Muses (and a Bodyguard): 10 Guides to Creative Inspiration for Artists, Poets, Lovers and Other Mortals Wanting to Live a Dazzling Existence. She teaches creativity lovers to facilitate classes and workshops based on her book and along with UCLA psychologist, Robert Maurer, she trains people to be Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaches. She can be found lurking at www.themuseisin.com.

07/17/07

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