Writer and artist Austin Kleon giving a talk on the genealogy of creative ideas and his creative process.

Paulo Coehlo, one of my favorite authors, riffing on writing and publishing with Nick Bilton, of The New York Times. Documented@Davos: Paulo Coehlo, Author from Michelle Laird on Vimeo. Tweet

Patrick H. Johnson is a phenomenal artist. We first met when he was mounting a show of his portraits. The portraits were unlike anything I had seen in how they depicted the essence of the subjects. I had to talk to the artist who had painted the portraits and our creative conversation began. It was [...]

I have started two novels in my life, three if I count the serial piece for the web. None of them were finished. I would get forty or fifty hand-written pages done and then crash on my lack of knowledge of how-to write a novel. Those novels-in-progress have been on my mind recently. Thoughts of [...]

A friend turned me on this artist. He is singing the soul in a way that takes me back to the blues, field hollers, and the use of the voice as a means of healing. And – it’s a cappella: “ORIGIN Italian, literally ‘in chapel style’” which ties it to the spirit in another way. [...]

I love this quote. It reminds me of the innate beauty and originality of each person. The quote also reminds me that this beauty and originality are our gifts to life and what make us essential to it. What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have [...]

Galeano’s comments about being fully present in love and life blew me away. I agree, “What future can we have if we do not inhabit the present in a way that embodies a more creative, loving, cooperative tomorrow?” Tweet

My friend hipped me to these videos of singer Darlene Love performing at the Hollywood Bowl and on Letterman. She tears it up both times. Enjoy. Tweet

The Bodhi Tree Bookstore will be closing before the end of this year. I have spent numerous hours and money at this bookstore which specializes in metaphysical, spiritual and inspirational books. I wanted to visit it at least one more time before it closed to appreciate it and to support it in some small way [...]

Today was another Los Angeles Road Trip Friday. I went to the Bodhi Tree Bookstore last Friday and today I trekked to The California Science Center & The California African American Museum in Exposition Park. The California Science Center has an exhibit entitled, “Ecosystems”. It features environmentally themed rooms with displays that elaborated on their [...]