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
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Poverty, the Pulitzer, and the Long Road of Luck
— Praise and profit came late, but Cormac McCarthy never missed them —
The much-anticipated film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s 2007
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Schooling The Soul With John Keats
— “How are Souls to be made? … How, but by the medium of a world like this?” —
Bright Star,
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The Art of Looking Deeply
— What is meaningful is rarely immediate —
“We proceeded on.”
These three words pervade the famous journals of Lewis & Clark.
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Art Awakens Us: The Diving Bell & the Butterfly
— Here’s a beautiful film that explores how art and imagination liberated one human spirit —
The most powerful works of
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Stacking Stones, Letting Them Fall
– “If I don’t work for a period of time I do feel rootless. I don’t know myself.” -Andy Goldsworthy –
Andy
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My Kid Could Paint That
– Creativity and commerce collide in the form of a four-year-old genius. (This is a reprise post from Soul Shelter’s
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Art Awakens Us: The Diving Bell & the Butterfly
“Being, in excess, wells up in my heart.”–Rainer Maria Rilke
The most powerful works of art connect us to ourselves and
