Ever notice that some of your best ideas, your “aha moments” and epiphanies happen when you’re not thinking of something? In fact they come where your brain is off doing something else completely, focused on nothing and your body/emotions/soul are running the show. We think if it as getting the right idea at exactly the…
DetailsArtists of all types have a bit of performance anxiety. It looks different depending on the modality and venue. Actors and dancers can get adrenalized before a performance, rehearsal, or tryout/audition, visual artists worry about the response to a particular piece or showing, writers try to not value the reviews even while they are reading…
DetailsIt’s interesting to me to watch the scientific process, or at least as much of it as gets reported, as its reacting to and on this information age and the ongoing technology explosion. We’re taught to think of science as a linear progression, figuring out one piece of the puzzle which leads us to finding…
DetailsI’m all about follow through. Keeping your promises. Do what you say you will do. See things through to the end. All that stuff. But like with most everything, too much of a good thing can be too much. Life is not about absolutes and one size rarely fits all and sometimes not even some. …
DetailsFrom Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert “I believe that this good kind of arrogance-this simple entitlement to exist, and therefore to express yourself-is the only weapon with which to combat the nasty dialogue that may automatically arise within your head whenever you get an artistic impulse. You know the nasty dialogue…
DetailsIt can be overwhelming. In our every increasingly global community where news is instantaneous and we are impacted by the tragedies of others both catastrophically natural and man-made we are faced with the challenge not of how to feel deeply, but who and what we should feel deeply for. If that weren’t enough we are…
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