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ukulele and guitar assemblage for Ron
Creativity

On making love, not war, and the silent majority

When I first heard Double Fantasy at 11, I knew I’d heard something new. A collaboration with two unique voices: one from the West, one from the East.…

January 23, 2026January 23, 2026 · 2 min read

Language

What do you call utopia?

With Sunday Morning Hope by David Byrne and Patti Smith I don’t care for the word utopia. I feel it’s been so overused for so long that my…

November 9, 2025November 10, 2025 · 4 min read

Too Tired to Title | F’It Birth of Venus by Elizabeth Mullen Matteson
Culture

Admitting Conflation

See, I’m on a self-study immersion in the English language and American culture so as to become a better writer. And my course is pretty sloppy and more…

September 28, 2025September 28, 2025 · 3 min read

The Art of Painting By Johannes Vermeer - Google Arts & Culture — lAHeqBoLaePtEA, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22003845
Creativity

Mapping: meeting what you need on the checkerboard of life – with art project

On the checkerboard of life, the right thing is finding its way to you, as you are to it.~ My Mom Artwork: No Title by the author 2024…

September 25, 2025September 25, 2025 · 3 min read

drawing by Elizabeth Mullen Matteson. surrealist with bold colors. Looks like two jellyfish under a tall bed
Creativity

Emergence ⟺ submergence

Acknowledging your submerged self, the media you choose to portray it, and The Beatles. Have your ever felt that you are emerging from something? If so, where are…

July 28, 2025July 29, 2025 · 4 min read

Coaching

Judging or Perceiving | Collector or Renunciate?

Dualistic Mindsets in Myers Briggs and other such things I have a judgy mind. And if you’ve done a Myers-Briggs test and landed squarely with a “J” in…

May 12, 2025May 12, 2025 · 7 min read

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