2013: A Year of Magic and Meaning


What’s is gonna be for you in 2013?  A wild new adventure that challenges you, scares you, takes you to your limit and feeds you? Or the way it’s always been? Seth Godin, in his brave new book The Icarus Deception, challenges each and every one of us to step into our roles in the world as artists. “Art is not a gene or a specific talent,” he says. “It’s an attitude, available to anyone who has a vision that others don’t, and the...

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Creativity Q&A: What Does It Mean to Live Creative?


Heading home from the center of town in the oppressive August heat, I heard a sound I’m sure I heard in my mother’s womb. The sound of tinny music, though not played particularly well, was inviting all the same. I searched ahead and found the source: a man sitting on a cushion on the sidewalk, playing the harmonica. I was born in Texas. My mother’s father was a cowboy rancher who played the harmonica like a magician. I suppose this man reminded me of home. I...

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