For Creative Fulfillment, Beware of “Wisdom”
— I heard the Hollywood gospel, but it didn’t save me —
Conventional wisdoms are sneaky things. Moderately useful sometimes, they often
Creativity vs. Commerce
Creativity is spiritual, personal, and irrational. Commerce is profane, collective, and statistical. But need the duality be so extreme?
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Two Books to Galvanize Creativity
– “As artists and professionals it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our
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Surrendering to Process
— “I got to know the stone a little bit more. My art is…trying to understand the stone.” —
Andy Goldsworthy talks
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Bravely Unconventional in 1799
— “As a man is, so he sees.” —
In 1799 the English mystic, poet, and painter William Blake sat down to
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Ghosts Are My Teachers
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Going Strong While Getting By
— Onward —
I’m closing in on the completion of my new manuscript. I mean it this time.
Those who know me
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Should We Create a Cultural Bill of Rights?
– And are you getting the Expressive Life you deserve? –
Here’s an egregious adaptation of some famous words by William
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It’s Natural to Need Help
– Relishing the idea of “making it” on my own, I didn’t foresee the hazards. —
A Lone Wolf Sets
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In Defense of Aimless Learning
— Here’s to the most liberal of liberal arts education —
Envisioning and designing the University of Virginia in his later
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What Am I Doing With My Life?
— Two kinds of doubt and how to use them —
In a prior Soul Shelter post, I wrote:
In spite
