How can the church act as the church at a time when the most loving thing we can do is to stay away from other people? In short, we get creative.
How to Act as the Church in a Socially Distanced World
Virginia Woolf on the Relationship Between Loneliness and Creativity, by Maria Popova
“If I could catch the feeling, I would; the feeling of the singing of the real world, as one is driven by loneliness and silence from the habitable world.” – Virginia Woolf
Build Pockets of Stillness Into Your Life, Maria Popova’s ‘Do Lecture’
Reflections on “Brain Pickings” at age 7: How Maria Popova’s ‘little labor of love’ newsletter became a source of such great joy for her and her 7 million readers!
Wendell Berry on Solitude and Why Pride and Despair are Two Great Enemies of Creative Work, by Maria Popova
“True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner voices become audible… In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives.” -Wendell Berry
Why has the Imagination been Sidelined in Literature? by Damien G. Walter
Einstein once famously proclaimed that “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” Yet we find ourselves at the position today where any non STEM subject has seen a de facto obliteration of its status and funding. That’s not a criticism of STEM subjects or their creative potential, but as Einstein was trying to tell us, those subjects are at their strongest when honed by a powerful imagination.
Madness and the Muse: The Secrets of the Creative Brain, by Tom Bartlett
When Nancy Andreasen began her research into creativity and mental illness, she assumed she’d prove there’s a relationship between creativity and schizophrenia such as in John Nash, the brilliant mathematician whose battle with schizophrenia was the basis for the movie A BEAUTIFUL MIND (2001). But is it a fiction?
Hilarious and Insightful Video: Monty Python’s John Cleese on Creativity
“Telling people how to be creative is easy – being creative is difficult.” -John Cleese. In an uproariously funny and profoundly instructive lecture, the co-creator Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers and a host of creative ventures, shares the five secrets of a creative life.
How to Write Everyday Without Missing Your Life, by Genevieve Parker Hill
“The earlier in the day I write, the more likely I am to: a) write that day, and b) write more that day.” …………………………….-Genevieve Parker Hill by Author and World Traveler, Genevieve Parker Hill I’m deep in the thickets of drafting my…
T. S. Eliot on Idea Incubation, Inhibition, and the Mystical Quality of Creativity + a Rare Recording
by Maria Popova “We do not know until the shell breaks what kind of egg we have been sitting on.” Poet, playwright, and cultural critic T. S. Eliot was born 124 years ago Sept. 26th. In this passage from The Use of Poetry and…
The Source of Creativity?
Our language determines our realities, not the other way around.
VIDEO – How Schools Kill Creativity, by Sir Ken Robinson
Two TED messages on education by Sir Ken Robinson pinpoint many of the problems (and some of the solutions) facing education today. How Schools Kill Creativity . . Bring on the Revolution