“But I’ve bought a big bat, I’m all ready you see, Now my troubles are going to have Trouble with me!” ~ Dr. Seuss (from “I Had Trouble...

We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become.

One of my earliest memories, probably when I was around four or so, is of making a crayon picture of the Easter Bunny. I was very proud...

I remember my parents as always looking forward to their retirement years. Retirement in post-depression, post-WWII America meant you had...

How to translate feelings into something creative like art or music.

Let’s face it, creativity can be elusive and frustrating, somewhat like waking up in the morning and trying to remember the dream you...

How can we use our imagination with knowledge to create a better world?

We all know it’s out there, from the time we’re little kids. We know it’s coming, it’s part of being alive. At some point, our current...

Several years ago, I met someone who had spent a day with the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism.

To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose I’ve been a classical violinist since the age of twelve. There was a violin...

" To achieve great things, you need a plan and not quite enough time ." Leonard Bernstein The quote above by the brilliant...

First of all, let’s agree that, even though it doesn’t seem that way on any given day, most of the world is getting along remarkably...

Okay, calm down, kinesthetic simply means moving, using your body, doing. And some people (about five percent of the population) learn...

“True art takes note not merely of form, but also of what lies behind.” Mahatma Ghandi I live in the neighborhood of San Pedro,...

“ Quiet people have the loudest minds .” Stephen Hawking Ever since I started writing seriously, with an intent to share my work, I’ve...

“ Your fear will always be triggered by your creativity, because creativity asks you to enter into realms of uncertain outcome, and fear...

“ There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love....

“ Without order nothing can exist - without chaos nothing can evolve .” Oscar Wilde If you’ve ever attended an orchestra concert and...

" In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine ." Ralph Waldo Emerson Remember the Disney movie,...

"I found I could say things with colors and shapes that I couldn't say any other way; things I had no words for." Georgia O'Keefe When I...