Category Archives: creativity

Seth Godin on the Future of Publishing and the Office

Posted on August 19, 2011 | Leave a comment

I love Seth Godin. He reads the currents of our times like a comic book and articulates the shape of things to come like a painter. I haven’t gotten to read his magnum opus, Linchpin yet but I have read articles, watched interviews, and know people who know him personally. So with that background, I usually listen to what Seth Godin has to say.

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Pain, Artistry, Denial according to Brueggemann

Posted on July 14, 2011 | Leave a comment

Walter Brueggemann talks about pain, artistry and overcoming the culture of denial.

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Poetry, Order, Chaos and the Creative Universe

Posted on January 18, 2011 | Leave a comment

What are your thoughts? Are you from the creative or non-creative  universe?

I consider myself a resident in the “creative universe”; however, in this creative universe the things that I imagine and don’t want to throw out are organized much like a wild forest or a fractal. I agree with Malcolm that we must embrace the “messiness” that comes with creative writing – following paths to who knows what end, but in my creative universe these paths are connected.

This is the beauty of poetry for me. You can begin with just playing. I never really know what form, structure, words, rhyme, or length my poetry will be. I embrace the chaos of the creation process, but given time for the process to work its course, I discover order in the chaos.

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