I’m sick of following my dreams. I’m just going to ask them where they’re goin’ and hook up with them later. ~ Mitch Hedberg (1968–2005 an American stand-up comedian known for his surreal humor and unconventional comedic delivery.) Many of us have life long dreams of what we want to do or accomplish from being…

Words are the most powerful thing in the universe. Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind. – Charles Capps (author of God’s Creative Power) Words can be exceptionally powerful and may have long standing implications: most recently Romney suggesting he had binders full of women to fill his…

“I played on three of Bob Dylan’s albums. I have very pleasant memories, especially the Nashville Skyline album was a real fun album to do. He was glad to be in Nashville, where the musicians were very laid back and very creative.” -Charlie Daniels They say that more songs are written before noon in Nashville…

Interactions are a key component of creativity and productivity. The exchange of ideas and inventiveness has proven time and again to excel on a super scale. Why are there more patents generated in San Jose (Silicon Valley) than any other place in the country? Why do urban environments create more new ideas and offer a…

 Cities are gentrified by the following types of people in sequence: first the risk-oblivious (artists), then the risk-aware (developers), finally the risk adverse (dentists from New Jersey). —Bill Kraus (Gay rights activist, liaison between the San Francisco gay community and Congress in the 1980s) Central Oregon is an eclectic mix of culture and diversities complete…

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion. ~ Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821 –1867) French poet who produced notable work as an essayist, art…

A cause may be inconvenient, but it’s magnificent. It’s like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it. ~ Arnold Bennett (British novelist, playwright, critic and essayist, 1867-1931) Visual art comes in many forms from paintings and sculptures to jewelry, mixed media, collages and murals. But there’s one particular form of…

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. ~ Robert Frost I once thought that a poem had to rhyme: Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet and so are you.  I then moved on to a more poignant idea that a poem should…

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. A friend sent me a text recently said he was cleaning out his gr mother’s basement found a vintage purse that he would save for me. I wrote back: great I’ll have…