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Monthly Archives: October 2008

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Happiness and ecstacy: Existence temporarily suspended – living in a creative flow

October 29, 2008 by

I first encountered the concept of "flow" more than 40 years ago at a summer ceramics workshop in California. One of the instructors tried to explain what happened in that moment of creativity at the potter’s wheel when we felt excited and calm at the same...

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Poems for these times

October 24, 2008 by

The tension around the upcoming election is really getting to me.  As I often do when anxious, I search through my favorite poems, looking for wisdom or solace or inspiration.  So it was that I came across the following three poems.  The first, by Denise...

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Notes from a conference: The new American city

October 15, 2008 by

In Atlanta this week, I am attending the annual conference of Grantmakers in the Arts, a professional association for my very specialized field. About 300 arts staff from family, private, corporate and community foundations and public funding agencies are...

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Art and politics in the current election cycle: Two items

October 7, 2008 by

This week I received a newsflash from Americans for the Arts, a nonprofit arts advocacy organization, alerting me to the presidential candidates' views on the arts. Whether or not you believe the federal government should support the arts, the statements and...

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