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What is Creativity: Transforming Suffering into Light


You know, there are just so many untold stories in the world. So many anonymous lives, each lived by a single human being with dreams and hopes, confusion and despair. Together, all 6,980,079,851 of us (at this moment now), whether we ever touch or see or hear of each other, we weave the web of life together. As an old friend of mine in Chicago used to say, “We’re all just muddling through.” Well, what if one of those lives – you know, the disposable ones...

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The notes and the spaces between them


As a professional writer, my medium has almost always been the written or spoken word. So, when I saw this performance by violinist Robert Gupta and cellist Joshua Roman at a March 2011 TED Conference, what touched me most was the power of their communication beyond words. I was grateful to be speechless. [kaltura-widget uiconfid=”535″ entryid=”1_gdcdc76w” width=”400″ height=”330″ align=”center” /] The piece Gupta...

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