Thoughts on Living the Life Creative
Just a short note. I had said that I needed to fall back and reassess. That's done. The other problem is that I am about to enter into my busiest time of the year at work. A trip, followed by Vacation Bible School, then a week of vacation, another week long mission trip, a... Continue Reading →
Where the Wild Things Are (2009) - Max is a nine year old boy whose life is turning upside down. Max likes to pretend he's a wolf, chasing his dog and howling. His older sister doesn't really want him hanging around, his teacher scares him by talking about the sun dying and his mother has... Continue Reading →
I talked about a re-set. Beginning again. And then I disappeared. Again. You had to wonder. I know I did. I wondered if I should just quit. Just accept that my body had gotten older and that what I wanted to do wasn't even possible any more. I came very, very close to doing just... Continue Reading →
Based on what I've read and heard over the years the single greatest obstacle to creativity is fear. Not lack of talent, or lack of time or lack of inspiration. Fear. Certainly I have spent a great many years struggling with that. persuasively convincing myself that I shouldn't even try because I won't be any... Continue Reading →
Witness for the Prosecution (1957) - An aging English barrister in ill health (Charles Laughton) is hired to defend an American (Tyrone Power) accused of killing an elderly friend. His wife (Marlena Dietrich) initially provides her husband with an alibi but her story becomes gradually more complicated as she is called as a witness for... Continue Reading →
Umm, yeah. So. Well. This is taking a little longer to get re-launched than expected. Being on break has given me some time to think about some tweaks for what I do here. Actually putting those tweaks into place has been a little complicated. I have a big trip coming up in just a couple... Continue Reading →
I almost quit. Over the last couple weeks it simply became so depressing that I seriously considered just walking away from this process and the series of posts. I'm not sure there is a worse feeling than the one where everything FEELS good followed by not getting a good result on the scale. My clothes... Continue Reading →
A couple weeks ago, we suffered a massive computer crash here at Phlipside Central. The most massive crash I've ever seen actually. As we struggled to get it up and running again I've been able to coast a little because I had a backlog of posts. Unfortunately, we've now burned through that backlog just as... Continue Reading →
I love the act of creativity. Sometimes I forget that it is the act of creativity that is important, not what is created. Because ours is such a "produce, produce, produce" society we are discouraged from being creative because we don't believe we'll create something worthwhile. What we either forget or fail to realize is... Continue Reading →
Life is always an adventure. A couple weeks back my computer crashed. Hard. So then I had to quickly find a computer in my current price range and get it in. First computer had a malfunctioning power switch so it had to go back. New computer arrives, works fine. Have to begin loading my software... Continue Reading →
