Category: Life and Times
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I’m quite fond of this quote from American journalist Bill Moyers: “Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.” No matter how mundane something may at first appear, creative efforts can find ways to make it not only interesting, but marvelous! How’s this done?Let’s explore how creativity can transform even the most ordinary aspects…
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What do you believe it means to be humble? I’ve always believed “humble” means being modest and respectful to others without trying to impose one’s own world views and opinions on others. But, whereas it seems many people seem to think that to be humble means always being self-effacing or submissive, I don’t think that’s…
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The thought occurred to me today, maybe the big, tangled knot of the world’s troubles unravels down to something incredibly simple: people just won’t get out of each other’s way. The more I think about it, I’m not sure why we react to others so often in such a harsh, accusatory way. The world is…
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I’ve long suffered with the fear of not being well-received as a writer. It’s the kind of dreaded existential terror that haunts a prolific writer’s nightmares. As I noticed my writing becoming denser and more convoluted, I worried I’d eventually reach a point where the only person who could decipher my prose would be me.…
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Today as I write this, my connection to the Information Superhighway has been severed for several hours. So, my full attention turned inward on myself, leading to massive overload. For months, I’ve busied myself reexamining various aspects of existence to the extremes. In between my intense studies, if I don’t find some external stimuli to…
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Have you ever had a thought, a little spark of an idea, that felt so bright and especially yours? Maybe you were writing, or painting, or just daydreaming, and it felt like you stumbled onto something precious, like a secret you wanted to hold close and tell no one about. I used to have moments…
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I once brandished the tarnished lance of unwavering belief against the ramparts of the indomitable. But now, I find my gauntlet heavy with the dust of disillusionment. The echoes of battles fought for phantoms, for whispers swallowed by the uncaring void, still reverberate within the hollow chambers of my memory, a chorus of sighs and…
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For me in third grade, the world was never more a place of endless fascination and wonder. It was then that along with a small group of classmates, I stumbled upon a curious creature that would capture our imaginations and bring us closer together for a time. That creature was the gypsy moth caterpillar. One…
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I’ve long seen myself as a hapless dreamer, stuck in a world full of seeming coincidences. Everyone is whining and wallowing in self-pity, making up all sorts of excuses instead of trying to better themselves. After all, it’s easy to get caught up in the rat race, running from one thing to the next, thinking…
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The digital world has evolved exponentially in the last few decades. With it, our relationship with technology dramatically changed, as well. So, discovering that Windows 3.1 works in DosBox on Mac, an emulator that allows old DOS applications to run on modern hardware, is a revelation with the potential to transport me back in time.…