I guess I'm back. It has been a while. Life took over, we changed years, I traveled for almost a month and moved house. Then, recently, after finding myself in the countryside again, where I stare at the green and blue of nature on a daily basis, right from my veranda, my creativity came back to me at full force.

I have to share it with you all, or I will go crazy

or possibly explode. I'm sure you understand.

It's time to share my ever surprising (as much for me as for you) creative process with the world, once again.

More info, in written words and imagery, can be found on my Hive blog: https://hive.blog/@vincentnijman/posts

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Today, I bring you a very special podcast and not just because of the waterfall background soundtrack ;<)

It took me 3 and a half months, but I finally managed to get a guest on: a dear friend and a highly creative one - someone who is pretty much breathing art and has done so for a huge part of her life. Clare is a woman from Scotland, who has been living in Italy for almost 15 years. I had wanted to have her on the show for quite some time now, but today we finally found a way that fits both of us and on a topic that is close to our heart.

I basically recorded a voice message to her, ( as we tend to do almost daily, at this moment in time ) and she replied to it ( aware of the fact that I would share this in my podcast ).

Clare is a great storyteller ( not a summarizer, I can relate ) and tends to share personal stories in a beautiful way. You gotta love her voice too. I sure do.

This episode actually starts with me talking about what I call the 'Post Printing Process' of my book, where I am basically selling, handing out and sending out my books, one physical copy at a time. I am showing and sharing it with people that I bump into, or those who have been following my creative process online in the last couple of years, via my blog: https://peakd.com/@vincentnijman/posts

I won't tell you what Clare's story is about ( you will have to listen to the full episode ) but I can share with you that she has similar thoughts and feelings about the distribution process of art/ our creative work and our conversations - not just between the two of us but also with others in a weekly Co-Creation session that Clare hosts - help us unlocking doors and unblocking parts of us that have been (b)locked for quite some time. It feels amazing and I am pleasantly surprised about it's unfolding on an almost daily basis.

I hope you enjoy this episode and am pretty sure that this is just a part of something way bigger and a conversation that will be continued. Clare and I have a lot more to say.

Wanna know more about Clare?

check out her website: https://www.claregaiasophia.com/ or read her blog: https://peakd.com/@clareartista/posts

Today I talk about getting back on track with organizing movie nights.

The hardest part starts now: selecting a movie from the 5000+ films that I have seen in my life ;<)