Sparks to light your wild idea
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 a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." – Lewis Carroll Almost fifteen years ago, I finished a crazy idea of getting a big old doctorate in mythology, and then got another one off the ground with the birth of a family resource center in my community. And then I decided I was bored. So I invited (okay, dragged and browbeat and lured) my [...]
Join me!
I'm on a quest to bring the power of craziness and wonderfully wild ideas to the world. I'm working on a book. (well, yes, I've been goofing with it for five years now but I'm really going to finish it this year...really!...I promise, Mom...and I'll feed it every day and walk it and you'll hardly even know it was here...) But it's coming, and will be called Just That Side of Crazy: How to Dream Your Wild Idea to Life. As I've been going after my crazy dream of Spillian - a place for imagination and beauty and fine food and [...]
Come Play! What’s Your Wild Idea?
What's your wild idea? For a bunch of years now, I've been working with organizations and leaders across a variety of fields think about how they can dream their work and play in the world forward. In 2013, my husband and I launched Spillian: A Place to Revel in the Catskills. The process of getting this remarkable place brought back to life and opened as a center for imagination and creativity has been extraordinary (I'll talk lots more about that in posts to come!), and it has deepened my resolve to help people make their dreams come true. I have dreamt [...]
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