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! ...
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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 ...