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Making progress in creativity may require scratching for every inch.

Making Progress in Creativity

Jan 28, 2020

“Scratching is real and tangible. It bloodies your fingernails. The key is not to block yourself; you have to leave yourself open to everything.” ~ Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It For Life I printed out the pages of my book manuscript recently—something I had not done since I began writing….

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The Crazy Maker in the Mirror

May 19, 2019

Did she run away? Did she run away? I don’t knowIf she ran away, If she ran away, come back home Just come home”~ Excerpt from “Where’s My Love?” by SYML I sat down at the dining room table in my business coach’s stately home and took a deep breath. I had journals, note pads,…

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Claiming Your Creativity (and Identity)

Jan 24, 2019

I suddenly realized that one of the core competencies of being human was that we were the only corner of creation that could refuse to be ourselves. The Kingfisher doesn’t get to choose to be a crow. And the mountain is just a mountain, and the cloud is just a cloud. The tree is just…

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What Is Your 4-Minute Mile?

Jan 17, 2019

About ten days of mail arrived yesterday via UPS, sent by my brother-in-law who is kindly checking my mail this month. I opened the large envelope this morning and began going through the contents one by one. In about five minutes, I had opened and reviewed everything. I wadded up the junk and empty envelopes and…

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A Creativity Lacuna

Jan 10, 2019

“When you grow up by the sea, you spend a good deal of time looking at the horizon. You wonder what on Earth the waves might bring—and where the sea might deposit you-—until one day you know you have lived between two places, the scene of arrival and the point of departure.”  ~ Andrew O’Hagan Rothko’s…

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I Have Forgotten How to Read

Jan 3, 2019

Growing up, my bedroom was small, but cozy with lots of light and well-designed space. It was my haven, and I would spend hours lying on the twin bed my dad built out of wormy chestnut—deeply engrossed in a great book.I discovered Dahl, Fitzhugh, Rawls, and later as a teenager, Salinger, Steinbeck, Hawthorne, Camus, Melville,…

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