Jacqui Murray (on her Wordreams blog here) recently posed the question “Am I creative?”. She was asking what you did to be creative outside of writing time. The responses were interesting, both in terms of who was creative in other ways, but also in terms of what people categorised as creative activities. My response really…
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The wisdom of kids
A teacher who works with young kids shared some of the quotes she’s heard online. I thought there were a couple worth repeating: Happiness doesn’t come from trying to be happy. It comes from focusing on other people’s happiness (3rd grader) There are no barriers in our minds – we can think of anything (3rd…
www is our Babel fish
Last year I read an article by Joe Hildebrand on this very thing. It related to the rescue of the boy’s soccer team from the Thai cave but the premise applies more broadly than that. I still think about that article so I thought I’d share the concept with you. If you aren’t familiar with…
End of year crash
As you’ve probably gathered, life has continued its chaos (in fact, I think it has worsened) over the last few weeks. I’m behind in posting, responding to comments, reading other blogs, reading, writing, folding, mopping (actually, I try to keep my eyes closed walking around the house). I’m finding I’m low in energy. It’s so…
Photoshop for real?
Do you think the following is for real? It starts with a model and takes you backwards through the photoshop process… Is it for real? The answer is no. But the things people can do with photoshop are amazing, and someone with skill can enhance an image to make it almost impossible to detect the…