Kate Houlihan

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December’s global CreativeMornings theme ABUNDANCE will be discussed by Jodie King on Friday the 9th.

Our musical guest with be Rey Arteaga.

Join us for  Cuvée Coffee & breakfast tacos.

Thanks to our partner JoyAnd.agency.

We’ll be meeting at Austin Beerworks.  

Register to get your free ticket here.

Practice an abundance mindset with the hashtags #CMabundance & #CMATX

Our global theme for December is ABUNDANCE. It was chosen by our Santa Fe chapter,  illustrated by Neebinnaukzhik Southall, and is presented by Mailchimp. Practice an abundance mindset with the hashtags #CMabundance & #CMATX.

Abundance is a state of plenty. In an intensely competitive society, we often feel like we have the opposite. Capitalism breeds a mentality of scarcity — it’s hard to feel like we have enough when we’re constantly trying to accumulate more.

Gratitude magnifies our experience of abundance. When we marvel at the taste of ripe summer fruit, juice bursting from its skin. When we set a table, a seat for every person we cherish, and bathe in the radiance.

Generosity multiplies abundance. When we prioritize mutual flourishing over private stockpiling, plant ecologist Robin Wall Kimmerer posits, “the practice for dealing with abundance is to give it away.” Once you stop hoarding what you fear to lose, you find that the more you share, the richer — in community, in wellbeing — you become.

What would it take for us to feel like we have enough? What does it take for us to unclench our fists and share our overflowing bounty?

November’s global CreativeMornings theme TRUTH will be discussed by Claire Campbell on Friday the 18^th. 

Our musical guest will be Time Traveling Wizard People.  

Join us for Cuvée Coffee & breakfast tacos.

All thanks to our partner Preacher. 

Register to get your free ticket here. Seek answers with the hashtags #CMtruth & #CMATX

Our global theme for November is TRUTH. It was chosen by our Buenos Aires chapter and illustrated by Sol Cotti. 

Truth lies at the bottom of a well, winding from its source in the icepack of distant mountains. Truth tastes pristine, uncompromised by what would be profitable or convenient. Truth causes your body to hum like a tuning fork, resonating at the same frequency as the universe around you. “When you experience an undeniable truth,” writer and social worker Jessica Dore observes, “you will beg, borrow, and steal. You will rearrange your whole life, forsake everything, just to serve what is real.”

And yet the truth is fiercely contested when competing narratives collide. We forge our truth in a crucible, testing its strength through heat and hammering. Instead of smashing our convictions against one another like a particle accelerator, could we sort through the messy, contradicting facts from all around us, together? Can we wade through paradox, the dark tangle of it all, and make sense of the world?

Seek answers with the hashtags #CMtruth & #CMATX.

October’s global CreativeMornings theme ETHOS will be discussed by Karen Landolt on Friday the 28th.

Join us for Cuvée Coffee & breakfast tacos.

Our musical guest with be Carolyn Trowbridge.

We’ll be meeting at The Cathedral.

All thanks to our partner Freestyle Languages.

Register to get your free ticket here.

Get a feel for it with the hashtags #CMethos & #CMATX

Our global theme for October is ETHOS. It was chosen by our Asheville chapter, illustrated by Colin Sutherland. 

Get a feel for it with the hashtags #CMethos & #CMATX.

Ethos is that specific quality that defines a place, time, or group of people. When you step into a room, a busy downtown, or a community gathering, you intuit its spirit. A messy DIY space invites experimentation and mistakes, a lush city park promises tranquility to anyone who seeks it. Maybe you even know of a monthly event where everyone is welcome and everything is free of charge.

At its core is a paradox: despite the specificity of an ethos, it’s impossible to pinpoint or trace to a specific origin. What honed that distinctive sensibility is long gone, vanished into myth.

With our actions and words, we embody these values and beliefs beyond conscious knowing. In turn, we subtly shape the ethos that our descendants — of family, of place — will receive from us. Ethos is alchemic, ineffable, and infinitely ponderable across place and culture. What ways of moving through the world did you inherit?

We have a bonus event on September 22nd called the World Wide Wander. 

CreativeMornings is chasing the sunrise around the world with a series of walking workshops (WalkShops!) on Sept 22-23. 

You can join virtually anytime and tune in for inspiration and special guests as our chapters around the world wake up. 

And you can join us in person here in Austin as we wander together. 

Register here to join us in person in Austin on Sept 22nd. 

World Wide Wander is a labor of love between Street Wisdom and CreativeMornings - two global volunteer organizations that believe in the goodness of humanity, in living a creative and curious life. It’s fun. It’s free. It’s time.

September’s global CreativeMornings theme DEPTH will be discussed by Christine Garvey on Friday the 30th.

Join us for Cuvée Coffee & breakfast tacos.

Our musical guest with be Leti Garza.

Say thanks to our partner argodesign.  

Register to get your free ticket here.

Take the conversation deeper with the hashtags #CMdepth & #CMATX

Our global theme for September is DEPTH. It was chosen by our Columbus chapter and illustrated by Bryan Christopher Moss.

Dive into the conversation with the hashtags #CMdepth & #CMATX

Depth is a measure of distance. Get a feel for it by traveling along a rock fissure that tunnels into the earth, stepping across the expanse between our galaxy and the next, or diving into the mysteries hidden within ourselves.

Depth is a space that denies easy ways of seeing or comprehending — when we shine a light into the deep blue of the ocean, we cannot see much further than the surface. In our age of instant answers, we bristle at this resistance. It’s often easier to reduce people, places, and ideas into flattened renderings, rather than grapple with the nuanced and contradictory truths found in their depths.

In what depths could you submerge yourself if you let curiosity guide you? Ask open-ended questions and listen for responses to arise. With patience, watch those questions transform and transmute as they travel further. Blink your eyes open in the abyss, lose your frame of reference, and discover something altogether new.