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Get real. What’s creativity’s real pay-off?
Does that pay anything? If you’ve ever created anything: a painting, a birdhouse, a soapstone sculpture, you eventually get asked, “Where are you going with this? Is there money in that?” This is where creativity hits conventional logic. The fit is tricky. A lot of time and energy and money are poured […]
The Grandmothers Mary – Part 2
But in the mid-seventies, in a small Quebec town, speaking English was akin to being from Mars. Kids in my class would run to get older siblings and, pointing at me, would declare that I was going to…
The Grandmothers Mary
Short story snafus The Grandmothers Mary was an entry I wrote for a short story contest, non-fiction category. In Ego-Wants and Soul-Needs, I spoke about a few bad choices I’ve made based on my ego’s advice (there are more but I’m not writing an encyclopaedia). One was entering a short […]
A little charity goes a long way
Charity has many forms, all good. When it comes to charity, a little goes a long way. Because it’s the gesture, as much, maybe even more, than the actual contribution, that makes the difference. Whatever form that takes. Charity can be private and anonymous. It can be a with an […]