Wonder

Everyone wants to be in flow: unaware of time, creativity pulsing through us like electricity. Transcendent. This is an article about increasing creative productivity not through sheer will power, not through hustle, not through painful creative workouts. This is about increasing creativity through engineered conditions for flow. …

Do you remember the sense of awe you had when you were a child? The wonder at how an ant could carry something three times its size. Or seeing the ocean for the first time and realizing how extraordinary it was. …

Although The News Gives Us Reasons for Despair: — Poetry by Kendall Johnson We Remember Wendy’s Story: She’d been asked to play a friends’s memorial service, and of course she had agreed. An organist, her music had been her life, and the family had requested her signature piece. Widor’s Toccata in D7 minor was difficult at best, but rumbled…

Imagine that flowers grow instead of hair While wandering through the green meadows I stop, I stop and take in all around Wonder, a way of curiosity to what is around Spring, the blossom is growing The way out, is actually through the woods Presence of all around. -acb

A Review of Kendall Johnson’s More Fireflies by Kate Flannery If anyone can find a spark of light in the darkness, it’s Kendall Johnson. You might think this talent comes from his experience over the years as a psychologist specializing in the treatment of trauma or his having weathered (at…

Long vistas of ridges beyond ridges and deep, steep roadless canyons. A hot, sunny, still and cloudless day under a seemingly endless blue sky. I was travelling along a dry, rocky and rough dirt track through the mountains. Somewhere past halfway to the destination I came across a spring-fed pool…

Tired of self-help books? If you need some motivation to read, look no further. The power of stories… They engulf you, consume you, break you. They lead you on an intense journey of investment and emotion only to end, leaving you feeling full and empty all at the same time. …