Perusing blogs on creativity and art this morning, I came across a pretty great quote this morning by a writer I don't know anything about other than I've seen her book on tables at Barnes and Noble. Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, has this to say about talent, process, and making the work: …
Kitsch
Here's another interesting review of Robert Scruton's book Beauty. This time the subject is high art's trashy cousin, kitsch. Robert Fulford, of the National Post, doesn't really let on whether he agrees with Scruton's didsdain of kitsch or not, be he does a nice job of summarizing the issue. On the essence of kitsch: "an …
Desecrating Beauty
I came across a long article entitled "Beauty and Desecration" by Roger Scruton, in which beauty is championed, defended against what Scruton calls its desecration at the hands of modern and post-modern artists who believe that art is primarily disruptor, disturber, and provoker. He cites as evidence a Mozart opera produced in Berlin back in …
What I Learned in Tracking Time
After eight weeks of tracking my time in hopes of discovering what I was actually doing as an interim pastor, here's what I found out: 1) Keeping productivity in the front of your mind is good for accountability and well...productivity, but doesn't do much for the enjoyment/fulfillment factor. It's not that I'm normally not productive, …
Post It Creativity
Just fun. Imagine the work and the number of Post-It Notes.
JEFF BERRYMAN 