Monthly Archives: January 2010
Late Night Writing
My skin temperature seems a little high, just a bit hotter than usual. My microwaved coffee may be the cause. Since my espresso machine died, I’ve been going through regular pots. Regular coffee affects me differently than espresso shots. Maybe … Continue reading
Filed under Daily Life
Regret Over Missed Colleagues
I was thinking about Arthur Koestler’s work today, The Act of Creation. The Act of Creation was the major text in my Directing Seminar 681 (I think that was the number) back in graduate school. Then I thought of my … Continue reading
Filed under Faith and Art
Meaning: Find It? Make It?
Eric Maisel, in his book Coaching the Artist Within, declares that one of the primary skills in living successfully is to “passionately make meaning.” I’ve read a couple of Maisel’s books. Maisel’s a family therapist and creativity coach, with a … Continue reading
Filed under Books, Faith and Art, Spirituality
Making Worlds
We encounter the world through our senses. Light hits the eye’s photoreceptors and the optical information starts its split-second journey toward the visual cortex in the occipital lobe, then on to the frontal cortex, and perception begins. Same with sound, … Continue reading
Filed under Beauty, Faith and Art, Spirituality
Vacation Adventures
So there I am, standing at the railing of a catamaran, bobbing up and down in the Pacific Ocean at the base of the great, plunging cliffs of the NaPali Coast on the north shores of Kauai. The morning sun … Continue reading
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