Category: creativity
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I began pressing flowers from the garden this summer. Here’s a sample preserved in my notebook for future color reference. The foxglove blossoms washed out colorwise. The pansies — those crazy stalwarts of the garden — popped, as did the penstemon and the nasturtium. The color wasn’t great, but the shape of the fuchsia made…
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On our morning walk, Craig and I passed this cotoneaster, its red berries the brightest thing around on an otherwise rainy low-cloud-ceiling day. It buoyed my spirits which had been busy with gloom-of-winter thoughts. I noticed this emotional divergence — gloom vs. pleasure — having just listened to a “Hidden Brain” podcast about emotional resilience…
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Searching online for some inspiration from author Kurt Vonnegut, I stumbled on an intriguing website. But first, here’s the quote — an exchange between characters in the novel “Cat’s Cradle.” “Self-taught, are you?” Julian Castle asked Newt.“Isn’t everybody?” Newt inquired.“Very good answer.” I found this in a short list of Vonnegut quotes put together by…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 