It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.
Tom Brokaw
inspiration
Empathy 101
“I like to understand how people see the world,” A CEO tells me. “It’s always different for each person.
On Self
“Tell me a fact and I’ll learn. Tell me a truth and I’ll believe. But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever.”
Native American proverb
The Eagle
Once a farmer found an abandoned eagle’s nest and in it was an egg still warm. He took the egg back to his farm and laid it in the nest of one of his hens. The egg hatched and the baby eagle grew up along with the other chickens. It pecked about the farmyard, scrabbling for grain. It spent its life within the yard and rarely looked up. When it was very old, one day it lifted up its head and saw above it a wonderful sight – an eagle soaring high above in the sky. Looking at it, the old creature sighed and said to itself, “If only I’d been born an eagle”.
On this day in 2003, we lost one of the greatest filmmakers in American history, Elia Kazan. To celebrate his stellar legacy and impressive body of work, watch one his iconic films, you have plenty to choose from.
Watch ‘A Letter to Elia’ online.
Creative Something: Good ideas are often bad ideas with heart
Often the single thing that sets good ideas apart from bad ones is simply someone believing in the former.
When I first set out to start a blog about creativity – solely about creativity – the common response was: “Oh.” It took a lot of prodding to convince anyone that a blog on such a singular…
Creative Something: Good ideas are often bad ideas with heart
Elysian Waters 