Category: creativity
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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…
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I love noticing connections across disparate patches of life: how dance infuses writing and gardening infuses art and art infuses dance. I’m still processing the many workshops at last weekend’s writing conference, reviewing my notes, and appreciating the session titled “Refilling Your Creative Well,” led by graphic novelist/writing coach James Persichetti. He took an old…
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Living in the Friendly neighborhood (named for Friendly Street, which runs through it, which was named to honor 19th-century era Eugene mayor Sam Friendly) is wonderful. It’s a mix of starter homes and fancy ones. It includes two schools, four parks and some churches. Families with little ones walk here. Elders with their dogs walk…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 