“The most important work is theoretical, to have ideas. The rest is trial and error.” Ferran Adrià recognizes that in order to keep your creative edge, you have to be free. You have to upset the status quo.
Creating a Life of Balance
“If you don’t design your life, someone else will design it for you.” (Nigel Marsh)
creativity postcards: The Eden Project
All it takes to change the world is one person with a vision and the commitment to see it through. Creativity is nothing if not this, big ideas sprouting and growing from nothing in small corners all over the world. I have seen dozens of these corners; and they never cease to inspire me. So I have decided to share the best of these with you here – postcards from the creative process – in hopes they will inspire you too.
invisible creativity: 3 principles for a life worth living
Creativity is the latest buzzword of success literature. When you hear the word Creativity, where does your mind take you next? Beneath all its external applications, I say Creativity is the gem of humanity, buried in the bedrock of our lives. It is up to us to dig it up and put it to use, in whatever ways our lives require.
the new thing for christmas
We cannot bring forth anything that counts in life unless we let Life penetrate us. And yet, we live with so much resistance, so much fear of allowing that. This morning, in my yoga-softened body, I could feel the gifts of these years. I felt my receptivity, my openness, my desire, my longing. I have longed for Life itself, and the feeling of taking it in like a really deep breath. I have allowed Life to penetrate me and to awaken the seed of The New Thing in my heart, time and time again.
remembrance
Remembrance Sunday. Today, as I watch those who have survived unspeakable hardship honor those who have not survived, I am humbled by their uncommon humanity. …What does your life ask you today that requires your courage? How will you respond?