Wright Park. Yesterday afternoon.
Gorgeous.
Good weekend! (Despite the rain)
It was a really fun weekend. Things started on Friday night with the Be the Spark event at the Dome. Saturday I had my commencement ceremony from the American Leadership Forum, a group I've been involved with for the last year. After that, we went out to the Lake to help my parents clear some brush and get the cabin ready for the summer. Of course, eventually the rain hit. We escaped it on Sunday and saw Bridesmaids (a pretty funny movie with only a few missteps) and then got some work done around the house after that. I'm glad Read more…
I am very happy to announce that I am running to keep my seat on the Metro Parks Tacoma board!
Ever since I was appointed to the Park Board in January 2010, I have loved my work with the park district. The quality parks we have are essential to our high quality of life, but during hard economic times even more so, when people are looking for fun activities that are close to home. Making this announcement on my blog is somewhat fitting, since it was the park system that made me want to start blogging back in 2005. During that year Mary, my dad, and I visited every single Metro Parks facility–every playground, every beach, every ball field. It Read more…
Some recent movies
Recently, Mary and I saw Jane Eyre and Win Win at the Grand. My expectations for Jane Eyre were too high. It was a good movie, excellently cast, but I had been expecting a lot more for some reason. I wish also that Jane had turned to the screen and said, "Viewer, I married him." But alas, it wasn't that kind of movie. Win Win was really good. Again, well cast, funny, and also a good story. Paul Giamatti was good, Amy Ryan was good, the starring kid was good. I really liked this movie. I don't know what to Read more…
From the Comments! More on Creativity
I want to highlight a comment from Lance Kagey on the previous post. He talks about both the engineer and the artist and the wide spectrum of creativity. His brother, an engineer who spent hours dreaming and imagining new ways to build integrated circuits. And he talks about the artists, who spends their time over a hand-cranked press creating posters once a month. Both the dreaming and the doing are on the creative spectrum. Small excerpt: When Tom Llewellyn and I started Beautiful Angle we had a specific conversation about trying something new. "If we could take money out of Read more…
A Long Post About Creativity
Last Sunday’s panel on creativity was part of the programming for the Tacoma Reads book, The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind. The panel was very good: how creative people worked, why they worked, what they got out of it, etc. What was lacking is that which I think lacks from most discussions of creativity: a real investigation into the spark of creativity. It lacks because it’s so hard to quantify, and it’s so situational. So, I think I’m going to turn this into Creativity Week here, and try to get a post a day up about it. I’ll talk about Read more…
Normal Blogging Resumes Monday
Pinky swear.
Busy week!
Seems to happen the first few days of every week: preparing for the City Club board meeting and dinner program means I don't get much blogging done. I was inspired to post after Sunday's panel discussion about creativity too … dang. I'll be back on the blogging train soon.