Don’t look for me in a human shape. I am inside your looking. No need for form with a love this strong. The lines above from Rumi can be interpreted in more than one way. As I teach courses on the psychology of metaphor, to my mind, Rumi’s lines refer to the power that metaphors [ Read more … ]
barack obama
The Choices….that Add Up Over Time
Below is part of Obama’s graduation speech at Arizona State University on May 17, 2009: Your own body of work is yet to come…Building a body of work is all about…the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime, to a lasting legacy. That’s [ Read more … ]
Inspiration vs. information
In addition to being delighted by our new president-elect, I am delighted by the creative visions and voices that have emerged throughout the campaign and afterwards. People are on fire. I love it. Early on before the primaries, the syndicated columnist and political commentator Mark Shields pointed out a major difference between Hillary and Barack: [ Read more … ]
