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Category Archives: Creativity

Keyholes

Thursday, October 29, 2009

We think we can’t see. We think we are blind. We think we are looking at something tiny and limiting and there’s nothing there.
But the world is chock full of tricks. The eye, the mind, the spirit, expand and contract depending on how we look and where we look and what we want to see.
Before [...]

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A Simple Way to Write

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

The process of writing is a tool. It serves us, not the other way around. There’s something wrong when struggling with the writing process keeps people’s marvellous thoughts and much-needed wisdom from reaching the rest of us.
To make the writing process easier, to shift the focus from how to write to what to say, don’t [...]

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Woman of the Week Series

Friday, October 9, 2009

Dolly Hopkins, Creative Architect, started a great series on her site called “Woman of the Week.” I’m grateful and honoured to have been asked to participate.
Reading about the women she’s put the spotlight on makes me feel doubly honoured — they’re a varied bunch who take lots of different approaches to creativity and get [...]

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Laughing in Our Human Suits

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Do you have to be so picky about the lights / music / temperature?
Cripes! My human suit is so finely calibrated, ain’t it? And itchy, too. Well, tough noogies. We’re both stuck with it until I reunite with the mother ship.
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Sometimes HSP seems to stand for highly serious person. Where are [...]

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My Brain on Microsoft OneNote

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

About six months ago, on a whim, I explored every single program on my computer, many of which had been pre-installed. When I stumbled across Microsoft OneNote I knew I’d finally found an organizing program that works the way my brain does.
Hopefully, this screenshot image provides enough of a sense of the format to intrigue [...]

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