The Best Day of Your Life When? Where? Who were you that day? Who are you now? Do you really want to know? Here’s a thought. You may just want to revisit that particular day. Ask yourself was it a happy-go-lucky one? Not a single nemesis in, on, or around you. Could you have celebrated that…

A Daydream Imagined On A Canvas: It’s nearly always a series of thoughts, images, and emotions that occur during our sleep. Sometimes there are conceptions or images created by the imagination that have no objective reality when we are completely awake, it’s a daydream. I love the word “chimera” as…

You ask yourself, “Is it just me always being told NO?” If you’re experiencing more than your share of no’s while you’re trying to achieve your goals. You just might unknowingly be in a most exclusive club. The NO Means Yes Club. Then again maybe you’re not. One of the…

Stupid Statements Put Forth About Creativity: You’re creative and you know it. You also know it can be hard and difficult. What you hear others say, and what you say to yourself robs you of what I like to call “Thought Power.” It’s the power to think independently of clichés…

The Art Of Thought Engagement: Speaking from your mind, we all do it so incredibly well. Well, maybe not so well. Sometimes we blather on and on without any real cognitive thinking happening. To see and say in a meaningful way may be as simple as learning to listen more…

The Interpretive Side Of Non-Interpretive Art: What is this painting all about? You might say it’s a disentanglement by me from my usual style, that I call Receptive Abstract Patternernism. There is an obvious interpretive element in this work. The three trees are floating on an island in a sea…

Inside The Spiritual Side Of Learning: When it comes to sacred matters that often surface involuntarily when we least expect them to, you will invariably find tangible thoughts and ideas. What are they really good for? They often seem to be sacred outpourings of your inner spirit. The question then…

Inspiration… It’s All In Your Head: Why do so many creative people need to go outside of their own thinking to be inspired? More often than not, it was a learned behavior taught to us, but by whom? The number one question creative people are always asked is, “What was…

The Advice You Want To Hear: Stop doing this to that, and a whole bunch of other things. Advice comes to all of us in bucket loads. Sometimes you ask for it, but a measurable amount is unsolicited. It’s usually delivered with, “You should.” And we all seem to get…