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