Monthly Archives: June 2010

I have run out of things to do… so I guess there’s nothing else to do but begin.

To encourage this creative process, Dr. Schooler says, it may help if you go jogging, take a walk, do some knitting or just sit around doodling, because relatively undemanding tasks seem to free your mind to wander productively. But you … Continue reading →

I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure-which is: Try to please everybody. — Herbert Bayard Swope

thanks to Valley Fiber Life for pointing me to this nice piece summing up Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s work on what is common in those wonderful moments of flow: 4. Concentration on the task at hand; irrelevant stimuli disappear from consciousness, worries … Continue reading →

As part of setting up the link overhead to “My Quilts” I was checking links and just clicking through stuff. Pondering future re-orgs and such like things. And then I hit this picture: And realized that I’ve been making these … Continue reading →