Archive for October, 2000

Imprisonment, Freedom, Teaching

My fingers are stiff; my knuckles are swollen; the tips of my fingers are bloody and calloused; my shoulders ache; my wrists hurt as I vainly struggle to answer 586 warm messages–and a very few chilly ones. That’s what I found resting in my mailbox when I returned home last Sunday. I guess talking about [...]

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To Dream

I just received a message that came out of nowhere by a person with whom I have never had contact. She blindsided me. She said she had read my Random Thought on creativity. She called me a dreamer in such an accusing tone as if I was threatening the very foundation of the world of [...]

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On Creativity

Good morning. And, it is a good morning. It is the first time that I’ve hit the pre-dawn pavement in almost five weeks. A war of biblical proportions against a vicious cold virus will do that. Anyway, the muscles ached a bit and my breathing was a tad heavy. But, it did feel good being [...]

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