“[Metaphor] is the secret of all life. It is the innermost secret of the life of God himself.” ~ Martin Foss “The present is not a phase in time. It is the tension by which past and future are metaphorically united and overcome.” ~ Martin Foss In 2007 I accidentally discovered Martin Foss’s profound…
Our desire to create certain outcomes impedes transformation. For brilliant work (and lives) we need to let go and let Something else work through us.
“Every extraordinary or successful or remotely memorable person in the world has only gotten to where they are because they didn’t give a fuck about being cringey.” @dahman454 on TikTok. I’ve been helping a good friend with her singing gigs for the past few months. It’s amazingly fun AND… I always leave steeped in CRINGE……..
For many years I led creative writing workshops. Early on I noticed that some writing prompts tended to keep people entrenched in analytical thinking and their subsequent writing was heady and dry. These exercises often involved using a word or newspaper headline to write from. Their writing might have been slick and witty, but it…
In 1973, neurobiologist Roger Sperry stated: “There appears to be two modes of thinking, verbal and nonverbal, represented separately in left and right hemispheres, respectively. Our educational system, and science in general, tends to neglect the nonverbal form of intellect. What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.” To…
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