The Mystery of the Muse
As an artist of many mediums, I am fascinated by the creative process… how it works, when it doesn’t work and how to get it started. For help, I turn to…
living creatively in a complex world
As an artist of many mediums, I am fascinated by the creative process… how it works, when it doesn’t work and how to get it started. For help, I turn to…
This has been a week of radical ideas perched in my forest of familiarity. Unlike the Green Peace rebels though, these radicals called for cutting some big trees. I started to get nervous.…
I have more questions than answers. For me, that makes life interesting. In my first blog, I linked to the site of my favorite book, “A Pattern Language“, by Christopher…
On a cold morning in March, pedalling along Bush Point Road, I saw this sign. I realized that I didn’t know where I was. My mind was on an inward…
I found this tucked between the pages of my writing notebook: The note arrived as I was preparing to write my first piece for Stella Sunday Afternoons and I was…
It’s 3AM and I am listening to the low, pulsing hum of a freighter making its way up or down Puget Sound. The noise I’m hearing is the propeller churning…
When I arrived home from Montana, I expected the Grand Moment… the Ta-da of completion. It didn’t happen. Not only was the job not done… part of what was…
Somewhere between Missoula and Butte, Montana, John Lennon is singing “Imagine” on the stereo. “Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can…” I start thinking about my bookshelves again. Mostly I…