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Art & The Buddha’s Rooster

Art & The Buddha’s Rooster

by | Apr 13, 2021 | Artists, Creativity, Writing

We were sitting in the muted light from the lanterns on the walls. The scent of incense hung in the air. Each of us had been sitting in the same cross-legged position on the wooden floor for a good many hours, and it wasn’t even dusk yet. We were on day seven of a...
The Ideal Reader

The Ideal Reader

by | Mar 30, 2021 | Creativity, Writing

Elizabeth Gilbert uses a specific strategy when working on a project: she settles upon one of her close friends as the intended reader of her work. For each project, she selects a different friend, someone whose unique personality somehow fits with the topic or could...
Wonder of Others

Wonder of Others

by | Mar 16, 2021 | Artists, Creativity

I stumbled upon an observation. I don’t know where it came from. I was having lunch at a local spot with a dear friend – she is beautiful, expansive and full of wisdom herself. She is a talented painter. I related to her a thought that just came to me — that...
Boris

Boris

by | Mar 9, 2021 | Creativity, Film

There was an intimidating figure in film school at NYU, when I was enrolled. He was our directing instructor. He hailed from Moscow, where he had taught at the film school there, the most revered school at the time in the world. He cut a domineering presence, with his...
Chats With Dead Artists

Chats With Dead Artists

by | Mar 2, 2021 | Artists, Creativity, Writing

Carl Jung was writing to his friend about “The Red Book,” a record of his mystical journeying. He mentioned that its contents would be viewed as pure madness if they were not contained within an appropriate worldview that could make sense of it. The book had to have a...