"I can always regain lost territory. A single second, never." ~ Napoleon Hat tip to Hugh MacLeod, author of Evil Plans: Having Fun on the Road to World Domination and creative pen/wordsmith behind gapingvoid.com Related articles gapingvoid @ Ditech (gapingvoid.com) Creativity and how to find the work you love (notesfiled.wordpress.com) ...
Paper Poem
Sometimes the stop and start uncertainty, The tactile tension, texture and cross-outs, Wine blots, smudges, and tangled doodles Are the only way to breath life into a verse. (Source: "Paper Poem", 40x41: Midlife Crisis Postponed) This latter chunk of a fleeting vignette on the analog/digital duality neither burnishes nor batters digital creativity. While less of a "divide" every day, there ...
Remain an Artist
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." ~ Pablo Picasso ...
Risk
"To create art on the spot. To step forward an express oneself. It always meant taking enormous chances." ~ Ken Burns, Jazz ...
Drift
I will unplug, Unwind, untether. I’ll surf the wind, Not the web. I’ll ride a bike. Anywhere. Weed the garden. Prune a pear tree. Walk. Alone. Far. (Source: "Drift", 40x41: Midlife Crisis Postponed) The top half of riff on slowing down, pausing. Now, not tomorrow. Because tomorrow never comes. ...
Enthusiasm
"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm." ~ Henry David Thoreau ...