When I was in graduate school, I was expected to KNOW THE LITERATURE. But what I began to notice, was that slogging through reams of other people’s stuff felt dead to me. After all, I was slogging through it with the only purpose of trying to stick names and articles in my brain somewhere. It…
Creativity is all about relationship. When we create something new, we create a stronger relationship with our selves and our inner voice. We’re also connecting with whatever is inspiring us at the moment–the subject we’re studying, the tree we’re painting, and so on. But there is another relationship as well–when we create, we’re related with…
Lately, I keep thinking of the Spanish word aprovechar, which means to make good use of something. When I have difficulty with a particular class or project, I can view it as an opportunity to use whatever is there to the best of my ability, not trying to push beyond. I will make good use…
I started a new class at the Sophia Center yesterday. I always emphasize that it’s about creative process, rather than creative product. We can all live in a rich, creative process, and in fact, in my not-so-humble opinion, living in a way where we’re deeply connected to our creative process is the only way to…
To create is always to learn, to begin over, to begin at zero. — Matthew Fox In John O’Donohue’s book The Invisible Embrace of Beauty, O’Donohue mentions St. Thomas Aquinas, who believed that beauty was the perfection of a thing. “To know a thing is to awaken to its depth, complexity and presence.”…
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