I am grateful for the invitation from Tara Mohr of the Wise Living blog to participate in The Girl Effect Blogging Campaign. Hundreds and possibly thousands of excellent bloggers who write on a wide variety of subjects are dedicating their posts today to reflecting on The Girl Effect. If you don’t know what it is …take a… Continue Reading
Creative Approaches To What You Have Been Thinking About
Category Archives: Expandings
The charm of a thrown punch
The artists and vendors who ply their wares in Union Square by definition are a bit strange. Strange to roll carts filled with broken tables and bungee cords holding down dirty boxes full of books or paintings or t-shirts or origami ear rings circa 5 o’clock in the morning. All to secure a space in the… Continue Reading
Wholeness vs. Achievey-ness: On The Emerson #Trust30 challenge
There has been some brilliant company the last thirty days in the Trust 30 Challenge launched by The Domino Project. Thirty “thought leaders” offered up writing prompts inspired by Emerson’s famed essay Self Reliance. People pledged to take on the exercise of writing each day about the prompts. Today my prompt went live. Lots of… Continue Reading
Expanding the Self in Emerson’s Self Reliance
I was born in an apartment in the East Village on 9th Street between 1st Avenue and Avenue A in New York City. Not in a hospital. That was a choice my parents made. Hospitals were for sick people. Pregnancy wasn’t an illness. I spent a fair chunk of my early formative years among tome-lined… Continue Reading
What a jar full of money can evoke
If you don’t recall I have two signs at my table. the first big one reads “Creative Approaches To What You Have Been Thinking”. This hopefully entices people to come to the table. In the link above you can see between me (on the right) and a woman named V (on the left) is a… Continue Reading
On Clearing the Soil in the Garden
This post is part of the Love Sparks Blogging Festival set up by my good friend Jasmine Lamb of the excellent site All Is Listening. Please head on over to the site to read what other blogging hearts have to say on expanding the conception of and conversation about love. Follow any conversations about the… Continue Reading
How to be seething, strapping, vulgar, violent, territorial and confrontational
This didn’t happen in Union Square. But it happened a few weeks ago and I think it is important and applicable in understanding the creative approach towards situations and oneself. For me and for anyone. From the age of 8 to 18 my main sport was wrestling. I thought of myself as a wrestler. It… Continue Reading
on the joy of seeing magic
yesterday on the A train going downtown a young heavyset man with a gray zip-up hooded sweatshirt sat across from me. nothing too remarkable. he stuck two ipod buds into his ears and then from his pocket he pulled out a deck of standard blue backed playing cards. and then it began… with total concentration… Continue Reading