Along the way, Stan Stewart has learned a few things about creativity. He shares them with you in the hope that you’ll respond with your confirmation or perhaps that your experience is completely different. Both are welcome.
This is also a place where you’ll find some articles about inspiration. After all, that’s an essential part of artistic creativity, too.
Naturally, upstate New York is not the only place where one can photograph a beautiful sunset or sunrise… Travel I love to travel. Over the years, I’ve been many places around the world. Each one has an incredible beauty of its own. In particular, I enjoy natural beauty like a sunset or sunrise. Many of […]
One of the visual and auditory gems of the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York (USA) is Taughannock Falls. Huddled in one of the well-known gorges north of Ithaca, it is the namesake of Taughannock Falls State Park. To give you an idea of this spectacle: the waterfall drops 215 feet — the highest
You can open a larger version of these photos by clicking on the small ones on this page. Finger Lakes Favoritism Maybe I’m finally learning to love what is. I’ve lived in many places and the one where I live now is my favorite. Just a few years ago, I moved to my new home
What if the world were flat (again)? Oh, yes: I know it was never flat, But the phrase just twisted itself Out into my poem anyway. What if kindness really has no prerequisite? Well, that’s actually true. You don’t have to know, Need, Think, Feel, Learn, or Actualize anything. That’s why we say Just Be
Hope is something that people need when circumstances are not the way we want them to be. If everything is going along perfectly, it’s unlikely that it will even be on our minds. We seek hope when we need reassurance or when fear has the upper hand. Obviously, when we do need it, we really need
Silence: My friends variously tell me to keep quiet and to boisterously express Both my fear and my anxious, soapbox warnings. If I could speak and keep passionate positivity in the foreground I would speak. But silence is the better part for me. To say what I believe would be to alienate half the population
Some time ago, I wrote a post about “translating fear into creative energy“. It probably would have been more precise to call it “translating fear energy into creativity”. In that post, I said that — for me — feelings are energy in motion (“e-motion”). This energy can then be used/ translated/ transformed into either positive or
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Slow By this morning, I was supposed to be releasing my new song track. It is still in pre-release. As an entrepreneurial businessman, that’s “slow” and not okay. As a creative spirit inside skin: it’s perfectly fine. This probably sounds like doublespeak to many of you… Click To Tweet Does that sound like a cop-out
It’s raining here in Ithaca. This was the weekend for a video shoot, but that’s not going to happen in the rain. This Spring has been such a weird mixture; as if the seasons are mixed up. I also had a chance to visit relatives in Florida, so I have that reminder that the sun
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived. ~ Sören Kierkegaard This is the third in a trilogy of posts based on quotes. Thanks again to Snow Brooks for the challenge. I didn’t follow the rules and I still got a lot out of it. Mystery Sometimes, it’s important
