I’ve written and prepped well over 400 posts this year for The Collective. However, until this moment, I haven’t stopped to think about the common threads running through so many of these articles. The 3 categories for The Collective are fairly broad – photography, business, life. So much can fit into those categories and in […]
The weekly wrap on The Collective
As I sit here to prepare this post I can hardly believe that it was just this past weekend we celebrated Thanksgiving. I seem to have done so much in the past week that Thanksgiving seems weeks in the past. I hope that you had a beautiful weekend with your friends and family. I did. […]
Building yourself into a creative genius.
We’re all creative geniuses…in some form. I was reminded of this fact watching a video earlier this week. Ron Dawson shared a video he created of his 6 year-old son building a Lego masterpiece (everything you build with Lego’s is a masterpiece). The point of the video is to share the common processes any artist […]
Living life as an ATM. What’s your balance?
I’m an ATM. An ATM is only able to give out what it has in its reserves. When it runs out of cash, it can’t distribute any more. We are ATM’s. A simple concept which is so difficult to live. I am constantly receiving and distributing emotional and spiritual currency. I am a walking, talking, […]
Open Space
I read this passage in the bible the other night. It was in Genesis, and Isaac (Abraham’s son, now grown up) was traveling through a certain area, and he kept finding wells only to have those around him claim them as their own. Finally he finds one that no one else claims. I guess it […]
How to stay CREATIVE
For a good portion of my life I thought that creativity was something that was innate. I believed that a person was either creative or you weren’t. Several years ago, I began to realize that this wasn’t true, I realized that I was creative (I had thought I was one of those who wasn’t creative), […]
