Reflections on Creativity and Life

Monthly Archives: April 2010

There is always a way

We have such little problems compared to what the people did you went before us. the pioneers had so may obstacles that were physical as well as mental to overcome that it should make us feel ashamed of the little

More stick figures

I have found that everything in life is like stickfigures. You just do the barebones outline and life itself fleshes it out. True with ideas and romances and anything productive. If you don’t do a stick figure then you wont

Stick figures

In every creativity book I have ever read one thing is a common denominator. They all say this one thing. They all say EVERBODY HAS THE UNTAPPED POTENTIAL OF BEING SUPER CREATIVE. then they all have different ways to get

Why Do Anything?

Have you ever considered why you do things?  Most of it is habit.  We go into auto-pilot all the time. Auto-pilot is not where anything new happens. Why anything is done anyway is just because somebody before you did it

white water rafting

Did you ever go white water rafting? It is extremely exciting as you go down the river bumping and flying over the waves and rocks. You get totally wet and you are screaming half the time.  It’s really exciting but

Then What

Then what?  I like to play then what to figure out the bottom line of what I really want. Why do I want it? Is it a fluke want or a real want-need thing. This is how to find out.

Surroundings

Here is a a story about surroundings. A woman in San Francisco decided to make her home a total experience for her children. She was an artist and thought that all stimulation of the the sense of sight is helpful.

Blast

When I write this blog I do not have any idea what I write about till I start hitting the keys. When I paint I start with nothing but slapping paint and smearing it and being with it. And unfortunately

Risky

It is impossible to prepare for a decision so much that you will avoid all pain in your life. People think that the right decision is the safest one. You cannot foresee what will happen next till you get there.