Category: creativity
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Walking from the bus station to our inn, we stumbled upon a statue in a small square. It was a monument to science fiction great H.G. Wells, who wrote War of the Worlds in 1895 while living in Woking. That novel, one of the earliest alien invasion novels (Martians invade Earth), and its author weren’t…
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Look, I can quit anytime, OK? I don’t have to buy a blank book every time I see a new color/style. Just yesterday I bought an inexpensive one (less than $4!) to take traveling. Does this mean the spiral bound is my travel journal? Oh no no no. The travel journal is the hard-back green…
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Getting ready for a three-week journey, I’m thinking about fresh ways to think. In that, I’m helped along by writer Pico Iyer, a fascinating author who at first blush seems to be writing about travel, but has something to say about various qualities of human experience. Here are a couple of quotes to give a…