"What makes a great story makes a great life." ~ Anonymous Ever heard that? I've long treated it as a truism. But I just wandered the web looking for a source and couldn't find one. In fact, it looks like this saying is mostly getting bandied about my pastors and marketing mavens. Hmmm... Maybe it's been composted together from many different sayings? Searching for a derivation I came across ...
Cross-pollination
Invent
To Invent this Morning 1. Skidamarink-tuned ditty about minty dentures to awaken my bride. 2. Fresh blueberry, rice, and canned venison breakfast for my dog. 3. Banana, peanut butter, coconut milk, and bacon smoothie for me. 4. New whistle to interrupt my dog’s snow graffiti ritual near the house. 5. Shower-steamed mirror doodle of a swanlike man juggling top ...
Compost
I've called it munge, the Daily Munge, for two decades, a term I pilfered from an article about archeology and layers of detritus compressed, transformed over time, long-long time. But the article vanished. Or maybe my memory invented it for want of an apt metaphor. Munge. Unverified. And while it’s served me well enough over the handwriting, typing, and dictating days since, I have begun to ...
Slurp
It used to be rude, Except home alone, With blinds down, Slippers on and hot Homemade soup in An old chipped mug, Two smoldering logs Sighing over coals In a sooty fireplace. (Source: "Slurp", 40x41: Midlife Crisis Postponed) From down-home cozy to global content consumption in two tidy stanzas. Beat that! ...
Combinatorial Creativity
Maria Popova is the editor and creator of interestingness at Brain Pickings. Debbie Millman is the inquisitive mind and voice behind Design Matters. (Note: you can skip directly to the "combinatorial creativity" section of the audio above if you prefer.) Maria Popova explores the idea of "combinatorial creativity" on her blog in myriad contexts and ways. One of her head-on looks at the idea is ...
Raw Material
"All that happens to us, humiliations, and embarrassments is given to us as raw material, so that we may shape our art." ~ Jorge Luis Borges ...