Breaking Open the Good Ol’ CD

If creativity is about unleashing our imagination, detachment is the virtue that allows us to truly examine and evaluate our ideas.  The virtues card for detachment says it is about “experiencing our feelings without allowing them to control us…. We step back and look...

What Detach Meant

Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions—if you don’t allow yourself to go all the way through them—you can never get to being detached, you’re too...

CREATE

This is dedicated to the spirits of all those creative souls that we have since seen move on this month.  Whatever your belief system, what they each leave behind are their creative gifts. Lemmy.  Glenn Frey. Alan Rickman.  David Bowie.  Natalie Cole.  And more.  The...

Bonus Blog: Your Dream Day

First, if you have not read  Come Together, Right Now… I invite you to do so.  Second, and either way… I suggest you have a look and listen to this tribute to MLK…. or the original. Today is a celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.  Today,...

The ABC’s of Problem Solving

These are just my thoughts.  I, alone, am responsible for them.  In some ways, what I am about to write… I have no right to say.  In other ways, I do.  I am no economist though I have taught economics.  I have no answers, and yet I do.  I am not in government,...