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We Are All Magicians

Monday, March 23, 2009

I’ll tell you about this book even before I’ve finished it. Carol S. Pearson, author of the best-seller The Hero Within, writes about archetypes and how they can guide and help us. She and Sharon Seivert wrote Magic at Work, referred to on the cover as “A Guide to Releasing Your Highest Creative Power.”
Magic at [...]

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Book | Orbiting the Giant Hairball

Monday, February 23, 2009

“Why would anyone want to suppress genius? Well, it is not intentional. It is not a plot. Genius is an innocent casualty in society’s efforts to train children away from natural-born foolishness.”
~ Gordon MacKenzie

“Orville Wright did not have a pilot’s license.”
~ Gordon MacKenzie
Gordon MacKenzie may have spent the bulk of his creative career ensconced within [...]

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Fonts of Joy

Thursday, January 29, 2009

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 Elements [...]

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Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title

Thursday, December 25, 2008

My goal with this Christmas Day article is simply to make you laugh. I thought I’d tell a few jokes (What’s brown and sticky? … A stick.) and provide a few links to humorous articles.
Maybe later.
I’m too busy wiping tears of laughter from my eyes after researching Bookseller Magazine’s Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title.

How [...]

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Personality Tests

Monday, December 15, 2008

To continue from the last article’s theme of hidden dimensions, how about uncovering more of your own facets? Online personality tests make self-discovery easy. Clarify what you already know about yourself. Thrill to new revelations. But, above all, have fun. You can always ignore any results that don’t make sense for you. No one [...]

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