Why you are sometimes misunderstood: part 3
In the previous post I took the dangerous step of personifying the two hemispheres of our brain, calling the right hemisphere the explorer and the left hemisphere the tinkerer. The caveat being that it...
View ArticleWhy you are sometimes misunderstood: part 4
PULLING SOME THINGS TOGETHER. In our previous posts [part 1, part 2, part 3] we established that our brains are divided and each hemisphere has a distinct way of being-in-the-world. The right...
View ArticleWhy you are sometimes misunderstood: part 5
Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4. IDEAS AS PLACE & IDEAS AS OBJECT 1. IDEAS AS PLACE: THE EXPLORER’S DOMAIN Highly creative people are often Explorers. Actually, at some point I’ll talk about how...
View ArticleWhy you are sometimes misunderstood: part 6
Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4. Part 5. IDEAS AS PLACE AND IDEAS AS OBJECT 2. Ideas as object: The Tinkerers Domain. Tinkerers enjoy pulling apart ideas and putting them back together again just to see...
View ArticleWhy you are sometimes misunderstood part 7a
Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4. Part 5. Part 6. So far we’ve looked at the lateralization of our brains, we’ve named the right hemisphere way of being-in-the world the explorer and the left hemisphere...
View ArticleWhy you are sometimes misunderstood part 7b
Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4. Part 5. Part 6. Part 7a. Here’s the quote we’re in the process of pulling apart: “Status quo is a structurally coherent constellation of exclusively tacit assumptions...
View ArticleFarming the Great Unknown
Leaves on the ground has got me thinking about life from death and how our world is full of cycles of renewal. That got me thinking about the rhythms of creativity. How there are often times of...
View ArticleHipster thou art I.
Read an interesting NY Times commentary by Christy Wampole called “How to Live Without Irony.” It’s worth reading if you want to head off there now. She uses the beloved pastime of hipster mocking as...
View ArticleChristmas Mourning?
I read somewhere that early church fathers intentionally chose December 25th, the celebrtion of the Christ’s birth, for its proximity to winter solstice. The longest darkest days of the year happen...
View ArticleHammer time.
A system is simply a way of doing things. An furniture-building-system is as much a thing as the furniture that gets made by the system. A system is a useful tool. A system noun-ifies the world in...
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