Marjory Wentworth's poem "One River One Boat" deserves to be heard.
Category: On Creating
Blog posts on the subject of creativity.
Creating Machines
Sometimes, creating is an individual thing. Sometimes it's is a group thing. What is this "creating machine" that we become?
Walking Increases Creativity
Recent studies tout the negative impacts to our hearts and muscles of inactivity. But, moving isn't just good for your body. Researchers have shown that walking, specifically, is good for the mind. It can help improve creativity.

See
Enduring mystery. Lures curiosity. Look more closely. Or, you will never see.
Poem: Fans or The Seeing
A fun exercise in creating nonsense. This poem takes its inspiration from another poem in a language I don't speak: Under the gaze of the common, flat, golfer fans huffed and horned and livened the ferbers ....

Mistakes
Mistakes are an essential element of creating. It's not a question of 'doing it wrong'. It's a question of playing .... what does that mean for a manager? Click title to read post.
Shot at the Sublime
Don't we all have that burning desire deep inside of something we want to do, a version of ourselves we want to be? This poem is about what that feels like for me: The day starts out navy,turns violet-gray,then, that pale yellow starts to heat things up. The sun throws it and I catch it,because I'm …

Poem: Is This How It’s Made?
A poem honoring visionaries and the vision in each of us: What is in the seer's seeing? What renders the light of recognition? What mysterious mechanism...
Focus
'Focusing' is one of the most powerful tools we use to produce, and to produce creatively. It has an earned reputation for being hard to achieve. Even monks cloistered in a silent space struggle. What is it and why is it so hard?

Idea Incoming
A poem about self release, feeling free, 'getting it', and how we let go: One day I will appear, suddenly, in the midst of it all. I will bolt out. A strike of lightening ...