Creativity Matters
“The imagination is not interested in…naively pitting one side against another, dark against light. It is interested in the place where the two sides meet, and what they give birth to when they cross-fertilize each other.”
John O’Donohue, Irish Poet, Author, and Priest
It’s been a HUGE month for me. On April 1st, I mourned the loss of my best friend from college in a climbing accident 20 years ago and, on the same day, celebrated the news that 7 years ago my wife was pregnant with the being that is now six-year old, Sierra Lucia. Last week, […]
“It is, we are, I am,” is the secret mantra of creativity that drives people back to the desert each year, to return sleep-deprived, covered with impossibly fine dust, and, though there is an outward call for self reliance and Self-expression, to return with a felt sense of having participated in something much, much larger […]
…the fact that Alcatraz, the world’s first super prison, sits in the middle of the Golden Gate, one of the world’s most famous portals, serves as a reminder that light and darkness are paired opposites; they cannot be extracted from one another. Welcome to Alcatraz The summer of 1934, during the 21 year respite between the […]
Gold is revered cross-culturally because it seems to build a bridge between this world and some other. The City of Gold The peninsula currently known as San Francisco has had many names, and based on the number of indigenous tribes living in the area before the Spanish arrived, many more than I’ll be able to report. […]
To have a landscape peppered with snake-like rocks, as occurs in the Bay Area, is not insignificant for creativity and innovation. In every creative act, something is always transformed into something else. When you begin to adapt creativity as a way of living, you begin to see it flourishing everywhere. And part of living a […]
