Folk music espouses a world that fundamental believes in peaceful coexistence. It regards an innate nobility and value in people—all people.
Read MoreBOREDOM
Boredom suggests a restlessness that must be fed
Read MoreA CHILDREN’S STORY
Childhood depends on creative sparks. The process of invention is the process of discovery, which is another way of saying that invention often yields growth.
Read MoreCLARITY
To find your waking moments always distracted by promises of some intangible future is never to be present in the first place.
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CLEAN DESK
I seem to be in an eternal rearguard action with my desk. It drives me crazy. But, lo and behold, I think I’ve finally figured out how this mess always happens.
Read MoreSPELUNKING YOUR ENTERPRISE
The only way to experience the place is to prepare, and the only way to descend after those preparations is to give yourself over to the experience. There is no middle ground if the journey is going to be successful; there is no way to enter the Earth without getting covered in mud.
Read MoreTHANKSGIVING 2016 -- Creating Value
To be successful with others we obligate ourselves to create worlds of civility an sensitivity. We obligate ourselves to tune in to others in our space, even as we desire to let our own guards down so that others can tune in to us.
Read MoreACTING WITHOUT THINKING
The process of successful creation is intangible. I know there is sky above me and I know there is air all around me and I know that the air around me connects directly to the sky above me. Somewhere the two meet, but the dividing line is a fiction of language, a function of our senses being given over to words. There is no dividing line between air and sky, but we describe the expanse of blue overhead as something different than the wind moving leaves on the trees.
Read MoreAGENTS PROVOCATEUR
Rarely do ideas survive for long if they’re not worthy. But just because some expressions have been perceived as shocking does not automatically make them irrelevant or useless. In fact, provocations in creative thought are not only natural but necessary.
Read MoreBURNING MAN
The honest-to-goodness, grab-you-by-the-shoulder interesting stuff is over here, out on the edge, just before the rest of the world discovers it. You can aspire, but if you want to be a real part of that genesis culture, you can't pretend. You have to dive in and be honest about it all the first place. Acts of honest creation cannot be easily bought.
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