If the roof doesn't leak, the architect hasn't been creative enough.
Frank Lloyd Wright
...heard a song in a dream, with a chorus that kept playing in my head as I awoke, a particularly nasal Bob Dylan-like voice singing...
you’re an interesting victim but you’re
in this way
...I have no idea what this means...
...sometimes feel like a drug addict without the drugs....a writer who goes days without doing any actual writing...a yogi who sees the sun go up and then down while failing to move beyond the I should stage toward actually practicing any yoga....the old crap, resolutely failing to crumble to dust and blow away under the light of awareness, lingers on...but so do I...
...one time overheard a conversation in a restaurant between two men in suits, one of them passionately extolling his credentials as the kind of original thinker any employer would die for, announcing to anyone within earshot...which, in this case, had to include dishwashers and maybe even people in the parking lot...I think outside the box!!!...to which the other responded, consolingly, I know you do....I could sympathize, but had to wonder if someone who'd use such a hackneyed cliché as thinking outside the box actually did...
What’s the one small step you can take to change an unhelpful pattern? If the answer is ‘Nothing,’ you’re not being creative enough.
Ana Forrest, Fierce Medicine*
* cool book...see my review here
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"What’s the one small step you can take to change an unhelpful pattern?"
Walk forward facing backwards. That way whatever you happen upon is unexpected.
Q: What’s the one small step you can take to change an unhelpful pattern?
A: Anything.
*I know what that means*
One of my favorite cartoons is a man and a cat standing by a pan of kitty litter, the man pleading, "How about NOT thinking outside the box?!"
I must return to read your book review. (It is after 3:00AM and it would probably be wasted on me right now.)
Great post, from marvelous image to the quote (Hey! We have a roof that leaks!) to finding out that you don't practice every time you think you should. As for thinking outside the box, the first time I heard that phrase used back in my office days I remember being really confused about it. I do not know what that says about me back then. Another office phrase I loathe is "skill-set." Beam me up, Scotty...
Just today I happened to get Bob Dylan's album, "Nashville Skyline" in a box of albums from a Freecycler. However, the vinyl was missing. Boo. So, I'm thinking of framing the cover...another project. *sigh*
...maybe even people in the parking lot... Haha...that's a good story, and I think I may know that guy.
I agree with The River Wanders. Anything.
wow. this one hit me like a ton of bricks.
thank you.
I absolutely loathe the phrase "thinking outside the box" because it is crystal clear that anyone using that phrase is not following its intent.
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