Creativity

Music under New York is Transcendent

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As I step off the train into the flow of foot traffic, wheeling my unwieldy suitcase behind me, I am keenly aware that I look like a tourist. Yet, this is my city; the...

Steve Jobs, Yom Kippur, and the Eternal Mystery

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I was never emotionally attached to Steve Jobs in the way many of his fans were, though I have certainly admired his Herculean technical accomplishments. But his untimely death, just before Yom Kippur—the Jewish...

To Be Inspired or To Inspire Yourself: Is the Muse Out There?

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[Note: I know conventional wisdom is to keep blog posts short and snappy. Alas, my mind doesn't work well in sound bytes. I hope the post merits the length. I'd love to hear your...

Episode 64: Khadijah Queen

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Please join us as our Tiferet Talk Interviews host Gayle Brandeis, are most honored and pleased to have award winning poet, writer, editor and teacher, Khadijah Queen. Khadijah Queen is the author of Conduit and...

My Robin flew away…

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    My Robin flew away… That morning was different. That horizon with the twilight hue of dawn was colorful. That air smelled of freshness. I was up and awake from a dreamless slumber, with dizziness of new awakening and anticipation...

A blank canvas

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It can be a bit intimidating to get started. That may be true in whatever it is that you’re doing, but especially if you’re creating art. That blank canvas… So much possibility. Possibility — or pressure? Depends on...

Five Ways to Root a Creative Spring Mind

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Each late March my mind explodes. Like earth, it becomes bloom-happy, indiscriminately popping out one idea after another. The Canadian Arctic Inuktitut have a word I relate to creative spring mind - Puijilittatuq. For...

The Artist

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There is a story about a certain man who considered himself fairly level headed.  He was practical, analytical, reasonable and religious; as if all of these characteristics could go together.  Anyway, he was wandering...

a path into the woods

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a path into the woods the desire to make a path I can follow begins to take its form. I am in no rush to reach the river. the Virginia woods have a lightness in them the Indians were...

What the Lakota Taught This Reluctant Entrepreneur & Creative Professional

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I thought some of you might be interested in this piece about the role of imagination and dream in Lakota ways and in my peculiar path to creative entrepreneurship. It's posted at A Hut...