Reflections on Creativity and Life

Monthly Archives: December 2011

School

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this is what I experienced in school when we did art class. Here is a project now do it now lets see how yours stacks up to mine and everyone elses work. You can draw or you cannot draw, Oh

The end of the year

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The great thing about the end of all things is that it is the beginning of the new thing. Have you ever noticed how good it feels to clean up the house after Christmas and get on with the new

Options

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In the army, they do not give you options to do what you want. I was thinking how freeing that is in a way. We give ourselves options to do lots of things that we really should not. We say

The Fog

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This morning the fog was so heavy it was hard to see more than 10 feet in front of the car. Yet we have to drive down the road not knowing what is coming at the car. Everyone has the

Learning the Hard Way

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A friend of mine once told me that there were two ways to learn something/ Listen or Pain. I would say that 90 percent of the time we choose pain because we do not believe what someone else tells us.

What you are

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Here is the reality. Most people tell you who you are if you do not tell them first. There is a split second of time where whoever is in charge will be the decider. If you know this you can

The Void

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Space abhors a Void. All the universe hates a void. Something always goes into an open space. A painting has negative space that is just as important as the positive space. Without great negative space the whole paintings looks awful.

Frozen

Everything in life can get frozen . You can be stuck in one place because you are afraid to move in one direction or another. So you are frozen in Limbo which is bad. Your car will not drive if

Perspective

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A few blogs ago I was talking about stepping back from the picture to see more clearly. I thought of another thing that needs stepping away from constantly. Your whole life. Looking at your whole life as a complete collection