Tag: creativity
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Creativity
As a child, every day involved creativity,Opportunities to design, invent, innovate,Ways to amuse, delight and entertain myself,Finding inspiration all around me.Some found my interests and activities weird,Others offered “helpful” advice,And between the discouragement and the conformity demands of middle school,The space for creativity began to constrict.As a teen, comparison robbed me of creativity,Always thinking someone…
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The Universe Already Got There
Listening to a podcast* today, I heard the notion that there is nothing we can imagine, create, or experience that the Universe hasn’t already imagined, created or experienced. Poet Sarah Kay lamented that the Universe has already written the poem that you were going to write. I was mid-dip on the torturous dip/pullup machine at…
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Timed Writings
I like to do a writing exercise with my students where I give them a prompt and an allotted amount of time to write. No editing, no revising. Just power to the pencil without stopping. If they pause, I tell them to ask themselves, ‘What else?’ I love doing this activity myself. Here is what…
The Journey Inward 