Creative Connections

Creative Connections

Our experiences in life connect in varying ways and sometimes take us on unexpected journeys that might be difficult at times, while at other times, be positive and exciting. Certainly, this is the case with creativity. We combine and meld ideas often without...

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There is Nothing Static About Creativity

There is Nothing Static About Creativity

A Happy, Healthy and Creative New Year to you all! How about including among your many New Year resolutions, actual attempts to celebrate your own ability to create? How about entering areas that intrigue you but which you have not attempted to explore before? There...

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Will We Ever Reach Maturity?

Will We Ever Reach Maturity?

It’s the Holiday Season; Thanksgiving has passed and there are more celebrations to come. Is it possible that still lingering on is that special Spirit of Gratitude, one which will continue into the next year and the next one after that? Could negativity have at last,...

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There’s a Light at The End of My Muddle

There’s a Light at The End of My Muddle

Thanksgiving is just a few days away and acknowledging gratitude to both yourself and to others, is healthy. Not only is it uplifting for those around you but having high levels of positivity will help you wade through difficult times - and waltz through the happier...

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Who Am I?

Who Am I?

It makes sense to specialize and therefore, become proficient in a particular area, but all too often, individuals abandon their other areas of ability because they do not appear pertinent to their work. Their daily lives,...

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The World of Glimpse: Now an Audiobook!

The World of Glimpse: Now an Audiobook!

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. W. Somerset Maugham I enjoy receiving my creative stimuli and satisfaction from different mediums and modes of creativity – painting, drawing, prose, poetry and now, producing and,...

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What Drives My Poetry? Humor, Largely

What Drives My Poetry? Humor, Largely

There is nothing funnier than the human animal. Walt Disney Many of my poems, although humorous, are also social commentary. I have fun examining, exaggerating and satirizing human foibles. Humor drives much of my poetry as does imagery, rhythms, sounds, my own senses...

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THINK FLUORESCENT & PHOSPHORESCENT

THINK FLUORESCENT & PHOSPHORESCENT

I never met a color I didn’t like.Dale ChihulyWhy do fluorescent colors arrest my attention? I think it is because they are flamboyant, bodacious, conspicuous, vibrant and brilliant. “Look at me, look at me!” they beckon and I do. Yet I use them sparingly in my...

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THINK MONOCHROME

THINK MONOCHROME

A colorful world is always a synonym for paradise. A grey or monocolored world is always a synonym for purgatory or hell…The diversity of color brings paradise.Friedensreich HundertwasserAre paintings in monochromes created because of a need to explore the subtle...

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THINK APRIPEACHARINE

THINK APRIPEACHARINE

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite –that particular peach is but a detail.Pablo PicassoThis blog is a short exploration of three fairly similar colors named after fruits: apricot, peach and nectarine. Hence the title.Is apricot...

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DREAMS: LEAVING OUR WAKING WORLD BEHIND

DREAMS: LEAVING OUR WAKING WORLD BEHIND

To those who are awake, there is one ordered universe, whereas in sleep each person turns away from this world to one of his own.Heraclitus, PhilosopherDreams feed us, and we feed our dreams. They are of us. Some are visual, some verbal. Some are vague, endoceptual...

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THE CORONAVIRUS: A PERSONAL CREATIVE MARATHON

THE CORONAVIRUS: A PERSONAL CREATIVE MARATHON

There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of vast ranges of experience, like the humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us.D.H. LawrenceDuring this period of COVID-19, so many of us still have "undreamed" and still-to-be-dreamed realms of...

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THE CORONAVIRUS: AN ULTRA-MEGA-SCIENTIFIC-MARATHON

THE CORONAVIRUS: AN ULTRA-MEGA-SCIENTIFIC-MARATHON

Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.John BeecherHave we all made up our minds to do our very best to protect both ourselves and everybody else during these times of the COVID-19? I think that the majority of people have. They care about the survival of us all...

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