Open & Nourish Your Mystery Box – Only 5 Spots Left
When I was a tow-headed boy, The Box in the Woods down the road kept my secrets. In the middle of The Woods towered a maple, an “X” carved with a butter knife in its bark. With no other kids…
The Girl Effect One Spoon at a Time
1. A Girl Anita grew up in India’s caste system, poor and with limited options. So it seemed. Her parents wanted her to do what any “respectable” girl should do: Get married. Serve her man. The unspoken assumption: Perpetuate her…
Uncertainty by Jonathan Fields: A Quick Book Review
As a guy whose advice for creatives to flourish often goes something like “Find yourself in getting lost” and “Move toward the difficult,” and as a guy who shucked a comfy sure-thing academic job twelve years ago to pursue something…
Magic: An Urban Fable of Awakened Senses (and a Wish for You)
Confession: I’m not a Harry Potter fan, but I am a fan of magic. Not so much the sleight-of-hand, bunny-from-a-hat, saw-the-person-in-half, Warlocks-and-wizards brand of magic. But the sleight-of-senses brand. The brand of magic that lifts the hazy filter from my…
Quiet the King & Listen to Your Inner Fool
Sometimes I’m a fool with nothing on my mind. I took a walk in the woods this morning to see what was on my mind and returned home with nothing. Nothing on my mind. So I picked up the latest…
Save a Life, Do Great Work, & Buy a Book: Tracking Wonder Interviews Michael Bungay Stanier
I have big dreams and desires for being part of a cause that reaches far, far beyond the needs of myself, my loved ones, and even of the people with whom I work. But I still wonder how and when…
The Question of Questions for Creatives
I’m forever curious about how to shape the flow of time to be more creative, productive, intentional – and just to flat-out have a more meaningful life. So, every morning for several months on my Facebook page and Twitter feed…
In Praise of Pleasurable Inconvenience: An Essai
A couple of years ago, I said something to two music-craving, iPod-obsessed friends that to them made no sense whatsoever (and for the record I say a lot of such things). iTunes and Youtube had just come onto my radar,…
2 Ways to Rally Wonder Into Your Creative Life
It’s really not as difficult as it sounds. But it’s crucial, this wonder-tracking, if we creatives and solo-preneurs want to sustain our creative projects and keep our momentum. Scenario 1: A client called me yesterday in crisis. Three years ago,…
Wonder Gestures in User Experience – KLM Surprise & More
At the heart of much art is surprise. And in the art of your work might be surprising people who matter – namely, your tribes, audiences, readers, patrons, customers, clients. My designer told me Friday on the phone, “I saw…
