creativity
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Week 42: leaping
Do you ever have days you feel stuck, barely able to move your feet, anxious then anxious about being anxious about what you have to do, need to do, should do—so overwhelmed you can’t begin anything at all. As much as this applies to ordinary, everyday, mundane life, I think it may especially apply to Continue reading
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Week 1: creative tension
I don’t necessarily like new year’s resolutions; goals sound a little better. Are you setting any goals for yourself this year? I’m setting at least one. One recent night while trying to fall asleep, it came to me: Write one reflection every week for a year. If you don’t start right now, you never will. Continue reading
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“On Creating” – Part 2: worth doing (badly)
by Anthony Martin “To serve a work of art, great or small, is to die, to die to self.” – Madeleine L’Engle On a hill overlooking a wide meadow next door to the house where I grew up is an oak tree with a few rotting boards nailed into its trunk. These misaligned memorials Continue reading
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“On Creating” – Part 1: some thing
by Nielsen Greiner “We must work every day, whether we feel like it or not, otherwise when it comes time to get out of the way and listen to the work, we will not be able to heed it.” – Madeleine L’Engle Procrastination. Excuses. Apathy. Passivity. Lack of time. No inspiration. These are Continue reading
a kingdom built of seeds 