Still Writing…

I have good news! I’m busy working on a book length project. So… for the next two months (May and June 2011) I”ll post on Fridays only.  To read new posts at their freshest subscribe by e-mail (see right sidebar). Visiting Creating Brains for the first time?  There ‘s lots to read! Check out 5 [...]

Lessons from The Music Room No.5: Creativity Can Be Learned

For one year– from Spring2010 to Spring 2011,  I turned my growing family into a laboratory.  My purpose– to set each of us on a Creative path of our own.  We began in the grand central space we callThe Music Room.  Our old piano is here and our shelves are stuffed with great books.  There are [...]

Busy Prefrontal Cortex

I’m sitting alone at a well-worn wooden desk at the front of my classroom.  My students aren’t here yet,  but they’ll start trickling in one-by-one soon.  I’ve read some student book reviews and graded papers.  I know the topics we’ll cover today well– poverty, economic disparity, corrupt governments, street-smart kids,  all topics connected to life [...]

No Politics? No Religion?

My grandfather had two rules for conversing at the dinner table: No talking about politics.  No talking about religion.  Every Sunday, our large extended family gathered at my grandparents’ to eat, hug, laugh and talk about everything–except, you know. I don’t remember anyone fighting or even arguing a-little-too-intensely, ever.  The two rules insured happy gatherings for [...]

Happy New Year!

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat. –Jean-Paul Sarte This coming year, take a break from so much rowing and rock the boat–not because you need a rest, but because you are ready for Creation to pass through you, like oxygen. Best wishes!

Lousy Writing–Worse than a Bugger Hanging from Your Nose

Creativity requires writing. Highly Creative people write to understand and to be understood. And although writing  for Creation need not be flowery or brilliant,  a smooth flow of words and clarity of language cannot be compromised.  Proper grammar and clarity of style pave the path for ideas to travel from Creator to the light of [...]

Is Barnes & Noble Changing for the Worse?

The floor design of my neighborhood Barnes & Noble bookstore has changed recently. The Science section is closer to the front of the store, next to Self-Help books. Religious/Inspiration shelf space has twice the footage of Fiction. The only CD’s left in the music/movies section are various compilations for old people. A huge display of [...]

How To Be Alone

My good friend, Elisa sent me this video, this morning. Enjoy!

The Creative Process is Like Slow Food

Creativity is like hand-made bread;  thought over and prepared with care and certainty.  Never fast:  always slow. Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, traveled to Italy to find her true Creative self. Slowly.  She started this quest, relishing hand-made foods so beyond the quotidian boxed salads of the ill-fitting life she’d put on for [...]

Defining Creativity, Part 6: Creativity can be Supressed by Culture

Every day, for a week,  I’m writing about the definitions of Creativity thinkers have offered throughout history and why each one cannot be the final definition. Yesterday I wrote about Renaissance Women with Self-Control and True Believers. China’s High Creativity first peaked while Europe wallowed in bloody Dark Age wars and then again during Europe’s [...]