creativewisdomsociety

Learning how to ride a bike was one of the most liberating events of my young life.   Spending years on the sidelines watching my older sister and her friends whiz joyfully around the block while I teetered on my training wheel-shackled bike where lonely times.      I remember the humiliation of entering second grade knowing that 90% [...]

A friend recommended reading Reality Hunger-A Manifesto by David Shields.  This book is one of a number of new publications that are examinations of our evolving high tech inter- connected media and speculations about where it is all going.   This subject, characterized by the high speed transmission of information, is really interesting to me, as [...]

Please welcome our most recent member, Martha Adrienne. Martha is a multimedia artist with a long history in the theatre as an actress, singer, writer and director of plays, musical theatre, performance art and operetta.  She recently exhibited one-of-a-kind works of conceptual sculpture using found objects, textiles and various non-traditional materials and processes at the [...]

Please welcome our most recent member, artist Don Hodges.  Don lives in my community of Viroqua in Wisconsin.  I find his work brilliantly imaginative.   We have recently collaborated on a project involving his creation of seven panels inspired my a poem by Mark Strand.   Photos of these paintings can be found on my project page.

Project FourthStream:  At the Edge:  Image in the FourthStream.   This project will culminate with a performance at the La Crosse New Music Festival on November 11th, 2010.  Project FourthStream is a duo I perform the piece with jazz musician Tom Gullion ( http://www.tingjing.com/tg/index.php).  We have developed a formula that allows elements of composition to drive the spontaneity and [...]

Our lives as artists invariably leads us to one crisis or another related to our work.  The American composer, Elliot Carter talked about his composition in progress as “a crisis in my life” .  It think he was referring to all of the complexities that he was dealing musically and all of the choices that could [...]

  My collaboration with David Ecklund on his project,  The Healing of the Scientific Mind is moving forward.  I will be recording David reading his writings next week. I will also record a short interview with him. Tegan Daly is interested in interviewing David for a print article as well. I am also interested in composing [...]

I have been listening to a book on CD,   The Biology of Belief   by Bruce Lipton.   He talks about the great cosmic joke centered around the human genome project.   In his opinion, scientist have falsely believed that  DNA is the secret code that determines the biology of an organism from birth to death.   What is [...]

We have two new mentor members, Elizabeth Oness and Stephanie Newman.  Elizabeth is an award winning author and an Equestrian. Stephanie is a gifted graphic artist that specializes in printing press art work.  I will be posting their bios soon.

I am pleased to be able welcome Tegan Daly to the society. Her profile will be published soon.  We have already talked about using her writing talents in the production of our first project:  Healing the Scientific Mind.  The writings of CWS member, David Ecklund is the subject of this project.  Please click on “Member [...]