Category: Creativity
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One Hundred Percent…
I love/hate the ubiquitous response “a hundred percent.” It efficiently communicates a strong point, but it’s a bit lazy. Much like “same,” “seriously,” and going way back, “far out.” One hundred is nice and round, two zeros next to a one like eyes looking around a corner. 100% means 100 of 100 is represented. It…
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Quote of the Week…
“If no one responds to your call, Walk alone, Walk alone.” Rabindranath Tagore, 1861-1941
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Quote of the Week…
“Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create, to see things grow and develop under one hand, day in, day out.” Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983
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Mis-Takes…
One of my life hacks is to take the unfamiliar way to see what I can see. I recently got “lost” on a three-mile loop around the perimeter of Memorial Park because I veered onto an unknown path that was an interior loop. Lots more steps, no gain in my quest to circumnavigate the park.…
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Birds…
In this post spot we have considered horses and birds and airplanes and even go-carts to imagine thrusting headlong into an unknown future. Flying without the benefit of a machine seems the most freeing. Oh, to be a bird, flitting far above the worries of this world, a tiny birdbrain giving no thought to the…
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Quote of the Week…
“A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.” Ovid – 43 BC
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No Doze…
I’m crawling out from a mental hole after a disappointing and life-draining time of NOs; worldly stabs suggesting I am not worthy, not enough, not valued. Not true, my brain tells my heart. So, I’ll emerge from the doze and move on toward that which I feel called to do, even reengage with the world.…
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Quote of the Week…
“Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.” Zadie Smith, 1975-
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Quote of the Week…
“Beauty ain’t always a little, cute colored flower. Beauty is anything where people be like, ‘Damn.’” Albert Johnson, as Prodigy, 1974 – 2017
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