Life on a Given Day
Everything orderly
Neatly stacked and straight
Yet with the slightest breeze
Everything crashes down
What makes a person creative? Why do we care about creativity at all? And what can I do to unlock my own creativity?
Creativity is a huge buzz word these days. It’s used in businesses and schools to define that personal attribute that will let you be successful.
But I’m more interested in how creativity can be used to make our lives more interesting and full.
Everything orderly
Neatly stacked and straight
Yet with the slightest breeze
Everything crashes down
I just started messing around with patterns after my son came home from the library with a book on zendoodles. I finally had to stop myself because I could have just kept going and going. Maybe I’ll continue with this drawing or maybe I’ll start something new and better. Either way it gave me a …
I noticed this quail at the top of a tree during one of my walks out in the desert. It was perched quite regally and I thought it was worthy of a sketch.
I have more project ideas and things to write about now than at any other time in my life. But I can’t seem to get very many of them done or even started. I look through my notes every day and think, this is a good idea. I’ll start on that today. But by the …
The punk mentality insists, “Why not try it?” Instead of waiting around for the ideal moment, find a simplified version, a micromastery. Instead of learning to play the guitar, learn one song. Play it a lot. Experiment with it. Robert Twigger Micromastery
Nothing is coming
My art is at a standstill
Hoping haiku helps
Like a spring seed dies
To let a flower emerge
So the Christian dies
I love this sillouette of a robin on a fence. It looks like he has somewhere to go, something to do. Could it have something to do with that towering object in the background? The picture evokes a subtle mystery. There’s a question, here left unaswered. It’s fun to be able to look at it …