“Exercising skills for sensitivity and understanding.” We all like to believe we are sensitive and understanding. And that hopefully by adulthood, we’ve learned appropriate boundaries around those attributes. So what is the quote really about? To me it is about curiosity and connection – and using these to expand and deepen our world. There […]
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Transcendentalist philosopher Henry David Thoreau wrote in his book, Walden, in 1854, “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.” Thoreau’s writing speaks to a human tendency to avoid risk, play it safe, “settle” into complacency. It doesn’t happen all at once. We didn’t start out in childhood feeling resigned to life circumstances. We were excited
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We are taught early on to separate truth from fiction, to identify what is “real”, to compartmentalize in order to function. When we talk about creativity however, this concept becomes a bit tricky and blurs the edges of reality and imagination. According to Blodgett and Genn, (one of our resources for some background on creativity),
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One of the pluses of creative activity is the opportunity to attach oneself to the miracle of nature. In spite of our immersion in a technological world, we are surrounded by nature. Creative activity gives us an excuse to immerse ourselves in it every day. Due to the floods and heat waves of the recent
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