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Monthly Archives: January 2009

Creativity Prompts | 3

Blurt out a harebrained scheme. ~~~ Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process. Look for a new one every Friday day. Also see Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for a treasure trove of websites, books, articles, tools, quotes, and more – all carefully chosen to spark your genius. Related posts: Creativity Prompts […]

Fonts of Joy

Typography, like cartography, lures me with the promise of esoteric depths. What secrets do the seers of these realms know? A recent foray into the world of typography captivated me to the point of near-breathlessness. There are worlds of joy within even a font style. It doesn’t surprise me that Robert Bringhurst, author of The […]

Significant Instants

Near the water in San Francisco, I stand near a mailbox here at the edge of the sloping lawn where people fly kites in the stiff wind off the sea. I see a row of houses across the grass – lining the street, facing the water. With one hand on the mailbox I stand and […]

Creativity Prompts | 2

Stop defending your position and see what changes. ~~~ Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process. Look for a new one every Friday day. Also see Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for a treasure trove of websites, books, articles, tools, quotes, and more – all carefully chosen to spark your genius. Related […]

Creativity Prompts Compendium

Spark Your Genius What do you do when you get stuck? When the ideas have dried up, but the deadline looms? When your relationship is in a rut? When the story needs a fresh twist? When there’s not enough money, time, or energy? Creativity prompts can spark your genius into action, whatever your endeavour – […]

British TV Crime Dramas – Part Two

The list of recommendations begun in Part One of this article continues here. (Please note the warnings for Wire in the Blood.) Second Sight – The able Clive Owen, capable of pulling off complexly compelling characters, plays Detective Chief Inspector Ross Tanner, a tough cop who’s going blind and trying to hide the fact so […]

Creativity Prompts | 1

What would a happy eight-year-old do at this point? ~~~ This is the first weekly Creativity Prompt, designed to deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process. Look for a new one every Friday day. Related posts: The Power of Creativity Play Anyway

Oops! Wrong Limb

“My absolute favorite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.” ~ Douglas Adams Every unfulfilled wish requires a reach. It’s unfulfilled because it requires a reach. And a reach risks a fall. […]

Book Concepts

Raise your hand if you love books. I raised both hands, to doubly demonstrate my love for books and to remove all doubt that I am, indeed, a teacher-pleasing nerd. So be it, particularly if my book radar continues to locate concepts like these: Book Towns – I can hardly think of a better way […]

Wishing Like Children

What did you wish for over the holidays? Did you come up with any resolutions for the New Year? What filters did you put your wants through before they were spoken out loud or written down? Using a reality filter makes sense. We want to want things we have a hope of getting. Stretch the […]

Bliss Reminders

“No problem can be solved from the level of consciousness that created it.” ~ Albert Einstein I take much of life to heart, feeling and sensing my way through the days, aiming for the miraculous place just before feeling fully spills over into feeling too much. Cue the circus music. What do I do when […]

Empowering Sensitivity

Highly Sensitive Power began six months ago as a website for highly sensitive people. That it attracts readers who are not highly sensitive by the standards of Elaine Aron’s self-test has been a surprise. The test for high sensitivity is not as definite as a test for pregnancy. The range of sensitivity extends in both […]