Ideas I want to write about

Miles Davis // "Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself."

Instead, I’d say that what I was looking for throughout my childhood and adolescence and young adulthood was what Romain Rolland called “oceanic feeling” in a letter to Freud in 1927: “the sensation of eternity, of ‘being at one with the external world as a whole.’” In other words, I was looking for the presence of God. The feeling, not the... See more

Avabear

The history of America is the history of convulsions and periods of rupture, followed by creativity and periods of repair. We’ve lived through the rupture; now, Times readers, let’s do the repair.

“Releasing art into the world becomes easier when we remember that each piece can never be a total reflection of us, only a reflection of who we are in this moment. If we wait, it’s no longer today’s reflection. In a year, we may be guided to create a piece that looks nothing like it. There is a timeliness to the work. The passing of seasons could

The just use of imagination is not just conceptual. It must be enacted. Without this enactment, a re-envisioning is relegated to the realm of fiction and future. The just use of imagination is applicable (in that is must be applied), and employed in our current realities in service of justice and equality RIGHT NOW, now later. John Lennon’s

Portfolio careers are on the rise and to me this makes perfect sense, because they’re more reflective of the way humans are built. We’re multi-dimensional, multi-faceted, multi-passionate beings, so surely our work should be multi-dimensional, multi-faceted and speak to our multiple passions.

Many of us are realising that we don’t want... See more

Never underestimate the importance of having fun.

Randy Rausch