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Creation, Validation and Inspiration: Part 6 VALIDATION… OR: “WHAT A PIECE OF WORK IS MAN!” Ahh, validation. The fuel that keeps us “outer-directive’s” fires stoked. Is it necessary to have validation to continue to be creative, to continue to do the work against the crushing forces of pragmatism? I wish I could answer that for…
Creation, Validation and Inspiration: Part 5 ENERGY PRODUCTION IN THE SUN OR: “MY WORDS FLY UP, MY THOUGHTS REMAIN BELOW… WORDS WITHOUT THOUGHTS NEVER TO HEAVEN GO.” We’re all familiar with Einstein’s famous equation, E=Mc2 (Energy equals Mass multiplied by the speed of light, squared). What does that really mean to a creative? Over simplified,…
Creation, Validation and Inspiration: Part 4 “THERE ARE MORE THINGS IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH… THAN ARE DREAMT OF IN YOUR PHILOSOPHY” It takes light 1/10th of a second to circumnavigate Earth 7 times. It takes light 20 minutes to travel from the Sun to the Earth. It takes light 120,000 years to travel from…
Creation, Validation and Inspiration: Part 3 “IT IS THE STARS, THE STARS ABOVE US, GOVERN OUR CONDITIONS” And so this brings my tale to the recent past. On June 1st, 2008, I wrote my Bourbon Street landlady my rent check and I had a $200 balance left in the account: not even enough to cover…
Creativity, Validation, and Inspiration: Part 2 “GOOD-NIGHT, SWEET PRINCE…” On a daily basis, 1,200 mgs. of Lithium and 1,200 mgs. of Lexapro were pumped into my little cracked egg of a head; an extremely potent combination of salt and serotonin re-uptake inhibitors so massive that I literally couldn’t see straight for about a year. It…
“WHAT’S PAST IS PROLOGUE” I’ve been delving a bit lately on the subject of creativity, and I’d like to share some thoughts; maybe open a dialog with anybody that might have their own spin on the conundrum that is “creation”, and it’s little sister known to all us “outer-directives”, validation. I’m just gonna dive right…
On Saturday Night during the Fourth of July holiday weekend, I got to play in my hometown with my childhood musical heroes, The Dean Brothers. The crowd was overwhelming. The Skaneateles Village Po-Po estimated the throng to be around 2,000 strong, an all time attendance record for a concert in Clift Park. I’d like to…
Although exploring the creative process may be one of the driving conceptual forces of The Daily Dose, manual labor can play a huge role in opening up pathways and clearing obstacles that may be obstructing a clear view to achieving a state of creative flow. SWEEPING LESSONS Carlo was a little old elf of a…