Alchemical Expedition

Our gold

Terry Heaton, someone I admire hugely and care about a great deal, says:

[C]reative concepts already exist in a place available to everybody, and as such, nobody really "owns" the ones that they find. Richard Adams called this "The Unbroken Web," and he used it to explain why the same ancient stories popped up at roughly the same time in various places around the planet.

I love this idea. Maybe I'm not just searching for 'my' vein of gold, but for a vein of gold we can all access. If the same vein of gold that served Da Vinci and Gwendolyn Brooks is also there for me...Well, now. Possibilities really are endless.

The project mindset

James Thurber was from my home state of Ohio, and as such we read his stuff a lot in school. I found this quotation from him the other day, and want to remember it:

Don't get it right; get it written.

Good to remember if you, like me, find it difficult to get going on big, important writing or other creative projects. (Maybe the problem for people like me is thinking about things in terms of 'projects'. I know people who thrive on that designation, but for me, it just smacks of hard slog and no fun. JP Rangaswami says that if you have a project, you have no collaboration. Perhaps for minds like mine, if you have a project, you have...no project.)