The Paper Calendar
The paper calendar is a work of art, a journal of a kind, a noble beast to sit at our side. We feed it with our words, with the people we want to connect with, with appointments, and ideas we don’t want to forget.
Baking up a book – a recipe and an update
For those of you trying to recreate my recipe, please be aware that I’m really not sure of the exact measures … For this recipe, I might have used a lot more than 1 1/4 cups of whipped courage or will by the time I have published. And for a book of this kind the mixing – how you put the ingredients together – is important and has everything to do with our individual process as writers, artists, and human beings.
Storytelling Tip # 9: Shadow Play
My shadow waves back at me as if to say hello. It beckons me to be playful, to stop and share, to consider and reflect, to become more open minded. Shadows are varying shades of grey, they are metaphorical, they follow you and they light the path. They are long and short. The distort and they eccentuate. Shadows ask us to drop assumptions, or see or do something new – they invite inspection.
Storytelling Tip #8: stories don’t have to have words
I’ll tell you the truth. I thought this picture was a bit of an embarrassment at the time I posted it, because it had no polish, no technique. But actually that is the point of it. We don’t have to know how to draw like “the artist” or paint...Storytelling Tip#5: consider the personal story
Are the stories you’re sharing and listening to personal stories? What stories do we share that are not personal?
The eyes and ears of a leader
How can we bring fresh eyes and ears to a project or to our loved ones, friends, clients, co-workers, and to our growing and changing selves? Basically what we need to do is to keep looking for new things, keep discovering – even in the routine – a new way of looking, seeing and being. I know this and still was fooled recently …
Perspective, editing, and proofreading – a tip for writers, speakers and storytellers
You’ve read it over a hundred times, or you haven’t proofed it once – in either case here’s my favorite proof reading, editing and perspective taking tip. It’s simple, doable and quick – read your book, article, text, email, speech or blog aloud …. this tip adds just enough to help the written word leap off the page so we can see it anew. Here are some examples:
Tree Play – a personal and professional play and project management tool
Tree Play is a tool I developed to help me, in a playful way, keep track of my projects and accomplishments and build a little play into my day. I still use it for that purpose, and it has turned into so much more.
Roadblocks II
Roadblocks? I took a closer look …
Roadblocks
The walk was easy, the path clear … Until it appeared there was no room for the next step.
