Notes, ideas, and philosophies.
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They may have forgotten or had to push creativity aside, or had it stomped out. But it is inherent in all humans. The world is better when more people express creativity. I've got two quotes and a song lyric I've been thinking on. Let's
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My friend Chris and I were accountability buddies in the Ness Labs Collector to Creator course a while back. This course was a really great introduction to collecting information and then doing something with it. Writing in particular, but whatever way you wanted to express yourself. Whatever way you wished
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Will tomorrow look and feel a lot like today? Probably, yes. Will five years from now look and feel a lot like today? Plausibly, maybe. Possibly, no one knows. No one can see the future. Hell, no one knows exactly what to do right now. We strategize and plan and
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This rock is changing right in front of your eyes. Slowly. When I took this photo, the tide was low, but coming in. I’d say that this rock was a part of the land. When the tide is high, the rock would be covered by water. It would then
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A rising tide lifts all boats What a nice thought. I’ve said it myself when teaching. And when expressing how sharing and helping other people helps us all. It conjures a mind movie of all people, together. Enjoying the bay, and sailing out to the sunrise. The start of
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I'm fascinated by the concept of the vertical breath. As I understand it right now, this concept flips what we traditionally think of regarding time. We typicaly envision a horizontal line, with a dot in the middle. The dot is 'now' and everything to the left
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There’s a line of thinking from Buddhism called The Second Arrow. It has to do with externally caused suffering and self imposed suffering. They way I heard it is something like this: Let’s say you’re walking through the woods, and out of no where you get shot
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One drop of water landing upon a stone doesn't do much to erode the stone. One drop of water, landing every minute of the day, for 100 years does. Building our single drops into repeatable process and practices is a challenge. How does one muster and sustain the
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In 1992 or so, I took my first photography class at a community college in south Florida. My teacher at the time taught me two things that have stuck with me for a long time. The conflict between the two things she taught me (or my own processing of the
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The best way to simplify is to reduce. I’ve been trying to keep the thought in the front of my mind lately. I was feeling anxious Friday night and Saturday morning. It was the typical anxiety loop, work, house, finances, parenting, when am I going to be able to