The new prob­lems of the world require fresh approaches. They require our inge­nu­ity and our care­ful, cre­ative con­sid­er­a­tion. You and I know this, but still most of us don’t often get mean­ing­fully involved. Why is this? I think there is a col­lec­tive feel­ing that these prob­lems are too big for any of us to make […]

Check out this music video from the group Ok Go. Mes­mer­iz­ing. Cool, huh? It reminds me of Feist’s 1234 video and the tread­mill video –also by Ok Go. These guys have it fig­ured out. There is some­thing sub­tly com­pelling about these videos. I can watch them over and over again. I think we appre­ci­ate seeing […]

Find­ing a way to be artis­tic can add tremen­dously to your qual­ity of life. For most of us, much of our active time every day is dom­i­nated by task-completion-activities, things that aren’t par­tic­u­larly mean­ing­ful or impor­tant to us, but just have to get done. Cre­ative prac­tice is about mak­ing a time for mean­ing. Here are some ben­e­fits of a cre­ative practice: