The delightful Danette Relic, whom I interviewed for this week’s podcast, is launching a totally fun and inspiring weekly creative prompt activity: Self-Expression Springboards. Each week she will share a creative catalyst to inspire you. As Danette so beautifully puts it, “You are a work of art with infinite facets and only you can reveal them to the world.”

This week she invites us to share that song, that song that represents us at our most powerful, our amazing rock star selves. The song that would play as we make our big entrance.

I have lots of choices for this because I love so many moods and types of music. I thought of choosing Serena Ryder’s gorgeous version of Good Morning, Starshine, which makes my heart swell with joy and my soul just start to glow or Prodigy’s Firestarter which has that powerful “I’m going to make something happen” energy that speaks to my intensity and drive. But today, today I’m feeling funky – so Earth, Wind and Fire It Is.

You’re shining star, baby. We all are. What a beautiful sky.

These are MuseCubes “the 30-second break that shakes you free!” What clever, sparkling, creative simplicity by Gretchen Wegner, who many of you will recognize as one of the wrecking crew for Wreck this Journal. These lovely babies are handmade with love by Gretchen and friends and they are designed to inspire.

One way stir creative thinking is to bring together concepts or ideas and see what happens when they hang out. Gretchen has done that in a delicious and beautiful way with MuseCubes. Each side has a verb and you get 2 cubes. So whenever you need to shake things up a bit, just toss and play with the results. Every roll gets your body involved and shifts your energy. Here’s what happened when I rolled “Sigh” and “Dance”: