This post is part of a series of excerpts from my forthcoming book, which is coming this month to Amazon. You can read all the excerpts in the Little Pink Spoons category. You can get advance notice of my book by subscribing to my Creative Adventure Journal.
Creativity and the Kindness of Strangers
Joseph Campbell spoke of life as a grand opera, and I have always liked that idea. Sometimes you play the savior, and sometimes you play the one who needs saving. It’s easier to be savior, the strong one with all the answers. But it is not enough. The one who needs a hand gives something too.
Little Pink Spoon #14 from The Wheel of Creativity
Why say no to eternal bliss? Why would anyone choose endings, limitation, restriction, suffering, and pain? Here is where The Wheel of Creativity begins to turn.
Little Pink Spoon #13 from The Wheel of Creativity
Throughout history, the wheel has been generally recognized as humanity’s first great invention, and it is not surprising that it also became a metaphor for the cycles of life and the processes of growth and change.
Playing with Fire: How Creativity Makes Dreams Come True
What I saw that night on the beach so impressed me that I went back the next night to videotape it. The four young men gave themselves completely, skillfully, joyfully, risking real injury for our pleasure, and asking nothing in return but the kindness of strangers.
Little Pink Spoon #12 from The Wheel of Creativity
Chaos enters our lives unannounced, but growth and transformation do not come without it. Without the dissolution of old forms, there are no new forms.