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Category: creativity

  • Gifts from poets past

    Looking for some William Butler Yeats poetry today brought me around to singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, with a reminder of how powerful writers from the past seed the future. Mitchell’s rich lyrical legacy is her own, of course. But for one song, she recast Yeats’ poem Second Coming and put it to haunting music. I didn’t…

  • The auspicious beginning

    Bring it on! In her book on making changes, behavioral economist Katy Milkman calls it the fresh start effect. Everybody else calls it New Year’s resolutions. I love them and I do them, and sometimes they do me proud. Buying and reading Milkman’s book “How to Change” gave me a suite of tools to help…

  • One new thing

    When my good friend Stephanie Barrow throws down a challenge, I can’t help but take it up. OK, Steph. This year I’m taking the watercolor plunge, trying something new to keep on building those new neural pathways for a healthy brain. Got me some Inktense watercolor pencils, a cool little water brush thingie, a book…