Thomas Moore has a timely essay in his book, Original Self, where he describes our need to leave space for the soul to be touched by life. He says we must leave the door ajar to let in something new. I shuddered when I read this because he had tapped into my deepest love of [...]

The American Movie Channel (AMC) was running “The Matrix Trilogy” last week. I watched parts of the first film, couldn’t believe it was made in 1999-seems like yesterday, and wanted to see something else with Keanu in it. I have, “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” on the DVR so I watched it again. Like [...]

Change is on my mind. It’s a new year and a lot of things in my life have changed and I see more of it ahead. My mind naturally turned to change and my creativity since it is such an important part of my life and the subject of this blog. My creative self changes [...]

Being creative requires that we take a risk. We must if we want to move beyond where we are, express something new and not go in repetitive circles. Fear and having our attention on the wrong things keep us on the merry-go-round. We are always paying attention to something but is it what’s important to [...]