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Category: creativity

  • Focus and intent

    For heck’s sake. What a mess. My play table. I mean, I could call it a work table but everything on it is about play: making art from dried flowers, midway through an embroidery project, editing a manuscript, sending cards to distant friends. It’s like leaving the kitchen a mess after baking bread and then…

  • Dancing for joy

    I’ve been dancing NIA for five years. I recently wrote a piece for our local weekly newspaper that explains NIA, but since that story wasn’t about me, I didn’t describe my personal experience with it. Aside from the sheer love of moving to music, which I think all of us have (whether it’s foot tapping…

  • Bob Dylan revisited

    Don’t know if it’s the February sky — low and drizzly — but Bob Dylan’s “Oh Mercy” (1989) and “Love and Theft” (2001) drew me in recently. I’m struck by how precise and yet how loosey- goosey Dylan’s lyrics feel. “What Good am I?” from “Oh Mercy” captures in such simple language and tones how…