Self-Expression
“There is vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action. And because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique.”
Martha Graham, Choreographer
[VIDEO] Tribute to Prince: Let’s Go Crazy!
Prince: A fully embodied creator Even though all of have creativity as our core human trait, few of us activate it in all aspects of our lives. Some of us don’t activate it at all, preferring instead to cling to dogmas and outmoded belief systems about ourselves, about others, and about the world at large. […]
[VIDEO] What is the relationship between healing and Self-expression?
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, […]
[VIDEO] The Last Safe Investment: The Creativity Matters Interview with Bryan Franklin
The Last Safe Investment: Spending Now to Increase your True Wealth Forever Bryan Franklin is the co-author (along with Michael Ellsberg) of The Last Safe Investment: Spending Now to Increase Your True Wealth Forever. The Last Safe Investment is a powerful and timely book that challenges traditional (and completely broken) strategies of traditional investing, affectionately termed the […]
[VIDEO] Creativity and Bay Area Innovation, Part X: Burning Man and the Primordial Ground of Creativity
“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 […]
[VIDEO] Creativity and Bay Area Innovation, Part VIII: The City of Gold
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. […]