Creativity and Innovation

Everyday Sacred by Sue Bender looks at  on accepting what everyday has to offer and how everything is sacred  and can be seen with new eyes if we are open to it.   Her book is a must read for anyone who is questioning where they are at and where they are going and lets face it, that's probably most of us if we admit it.  Take a look at the Table of Contents to see how she sets about showing us how to the journey home can be an amazing experience  - "are everyday things entitled to reverence ?" she asks in her first pages.  Sue Bender draws on the empty begging bowl as a powerful and inspirational  metaphor for life and accepting whatever is placed in it.      How many things do we take for granted, how many things do we just not see properly, how many things do we think will always be there until one day they are not ?   What is our reality ? Is it even important ?  Discover where her journey leads and what insi...

Go with the flow and somewhere, amidst the swirls of life there will be a pattern of circumstances you will be drawn to - this will be your path to creativity and yours alone.  It might not look great at first, it might even look too difficult to head on into and if you are not careful you might even miss it. Don't worry if it doesn't appear like the image you have in your mind, it will all become clear ......  eventually !  The impossible will become possible and the confusion will clear to leave crystal clear direction and resolve.   Life is a choice - choose to be creative   Fight against it, force the issue and you will find your search for the path becomes fraught with difficulties and your emerging creativity will vanish like melting snow.   Do not use this as an excuse to sit and wait ! If your goal is to become more creative, start out, reach towards your goal and it will come rapidly toward you faster than the speed of light and hit you on the he...

Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense | Video on TED.com A Taste of the Future !   Take a look at this amazing technology  

What do you see when you look at this photo. Two people or  leaves arranged in a strange pattern ? I took this photo as I really liked the play of light and shadow on the Lotus leaves  and when I came to edit it the two figures popped up on my screen and it got me thinking along the lines of tree spirits and nature spirits.  Do they exist ? Do plants have a "Mother Spirit" - looking at this its easy to think yes and  the whole concept it enough to start you delving into a whole can of philosophical worms  but when I showed it to a friend recently they glanced it and said yes, very pretty .......  its like life isn't it ?  You can dive into it or just look at the pool of life and think yes, it looks very "nice!"   -  Nice ???????   Is that all there is ?   Somehow I don't think they "got it " do you ?   Its enough to drive you absolutely nuts if you let it :)) And how come I didn't spot my Lotus couple t...