Creativity is such a buzz word now, it’s practically lost its meaning. And the quality of our lives depends on how well we learn to use it. Read on for 12 mind-altering, heart-opening, life-changing secrets I’ve discovered through my lifetime as a creative adventurer.
The Gratitude Antidote… Appreciation is the Cure
Growing up in Texas, I knew that every Thanksgiving my mother, the clear and present matriarch of the family, would end our meal with a single command. “Okay, now let’s go around the table and everyone say what you’re grateful for.” Eyes would roll. And the moans were audible. I was in my mid-30s before I began to appreciate this ritual.
Disappointment and the Creative Path
Creativity is the lover that makes your life worth living. But she needs your attention. He is jealous… and impatient. Without her, the ground of your being is cracked like the desert floor. Without him, life is pallid and dull.
The Five Elements of the Creative Life
Creativity is the greatest natural resource in the world today. It is sustainable, renewable, inexhaustible and free. Creativity is THE solution to every one of the world’s problems. And you have direct access to it. And yet most of us are just leaving it in the ground.
Learning to Be Brave. Conversations that Heal.
So the other day, I was speaking with an amazingly smart and creative friend who told me that she doesn’t believe in safe spaces. Rather she said she believes in brave spaces. This got me to thinking about the difference between a safe space and a safe conversation.
Black Men Speak: A Conversation for Humanity
When George Floyd was killed, and people began hitting the streets in protest, I started to stir from a long slumber – the sleepy comfort of not knowing what I did not know. I started to listen. This conversation is the result of what I heard. And the three men who speak here – all dear friends of mine – share three experiences of what it means to be a black man in their three countries (USA, UK and South Africa) and around the world.