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 [...]
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 [...]
Doing: When You Think of a Task, Do It
When You Think of a Task, Do It When you think of a task, do it as it occurs to you. Here’s the logic behind this thought. There are going to be more things that [...]
Finding Allies: Even the Color Blue
"We have so many allies in this world, including just the color blue in the sky." - David Whyte When Aloneness Sucks There are moments when you're going after a wild idea when it [...]
On the Power of Symbols: Notre Dame
On the Power of Symbols: Notre Dame The Fire at Notre Dame Like millions of people, I am viscerally feeling the loss of the Notre Dame fire. I felt that throb in the solar plexus [...]
Fear and Sailing into Infinity
Fear and Sailing into Infinity You’re Going to Feel Fear One of the big rules of going after your wild idea? Fear. You’re going to be scared to death. You’re going to not sleep at [...]
Break the Stick: About Rules and Wild Ideas
Break the Stick: Rules and Wild Ideas In the course of creating Spillian, I’ve found myself regularly chanting particular ideas like a mantra - an idea about whatever it was we were trying to make happen [...]
Ideas: Inspiration and People I Love
Finding Fuel In an era that can feel overwhelmingly dark and frightening, with catastrophic climate crisis no longer an abstract concept maybe on the distant horizon, leadership that does anything but lead, and a [...]
Seeking a Wild Idea
"Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour [...]
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