Breathe Deep and Resume the Quest
Breathe Deep and Resume the Quest Some days, the world flips upside down. And it can take a while to find your breath again. Last summer, the world lost my truly amazing dad. (This picture is of him learning to play the cello at almost 90. He was the great imaginer. You can learn more about him here, if you'd [...]
Taming a Wild Idea | A Pox Upon Perfection
Taming a Wild Idea, Step One One of the most challenging aspects to taming a wild idea is moving it from the ever-so-tasty place where you can love it from a distance to diving in to make it real. There's something truly delicious about allowing grand ideas to stay wild. They're always perfect when they live in the edges of [...]
Meet Your Fear Monster: Name & Tame What Scares You
Meet Your Fear Monster: Name and Tame What Scares You Naming and Taming Fear As I talk with people about their wild ideas, fear comes up a lot. Whether they're just beginning to dare to say them in their heads. Or out loud anywhere other than in the middle of the night, alone. Or whether they're midstream in bringing their [...]
A Herd of Words: Frivolous and Frivolously Defined
A Herd of Words One of the wild ideas I'm working on is shaping a section of my doctoral dissertation. I wrote on frivolity, and the point of pointlessness (because, dissertation in mythology!). My dissertation was a wild idea itself, in many ways. I was both embracing and whacking away at the ideas of academic seriousness. As a result, I [...]
Friends Help Bring Wild Ideas to Life: First Thoughts
Friends Help Bring Wild Ideas to Life The Solitude of Our Imaginations We dream big, wild, wonderful ideas in the solitude of our own imaginations. (Most of the time, at least.) It's a pretty glorious thing to ride what philosopher Gaston Bachelard calls 'the voyage into the land of the infinite.' The seas can be as wide and deep as [...]
Beautiful Thugs: Gardening Your Wild Idea
"Je sais aussi, dit Candide, qu'il faut cultiver notre jardin." - Voltaire, Candide Cultivating My Own Garden Last week, I wrote about the power of getting to those pesky tasks that can bog us down fast, when we think of them, to get them out of the way. This week, because I am a contrarian (and continue to [...]
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