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Confronting climate change with an “ecological imagination”

August 7, 2018 by Thomas S. Bremer Leave a Comment

Destruction Island lighthouse, Washington

Mountains of data about climate change are not enough to rouse people from complacency. We need more imaginative, creative ways of addressing the human impact on the global environment.

Filed Under: Random Tagged With: climate change, creativity, ecological imagination

What is art?

August 6, 2018 by Thomas S. Bremer Leave a Comment

Philadelphia parking lot mural

Artist Donald Judd concluded, “Art is everything at once.” I would expand on his insight. We are all artists all the time, making the greatest works of art imaginable in our very being.

Filed Under: Random Tagged With: art, creativity

Creative Procrastination

July 25, 2018 by Thomas S. Bremer Leave a Comment

Being creative

Creativity is never procrastination. Our time in this world is a lived poem.

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: art, Bashō, creativity, Poetry, procrastination

The wind-swept spirit of creativity

July 18, 2018 by Thomas S. Bremer Leave a Comment

Rain at dawn

Is creativity merely a function of the body as a biological organism, or is there something more, a transcendental muse that inspires and guides creativity?

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: creativity, materialism, Matsuo Bashō, metaphysics

In search of our authentic selves

July 16, 2018 by Thomas S. Bremer Leave a Comment

Self portrait

Travelers seeking the authentic in the places they visit are looking for evidence of an authentic self. They desire authentic experiences that reveal a meaningful essence inside themselves.

Filed Under: Random Tagged With: authenticity, creativity, identity, purity, spirituality, tourism

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July 6, 2018 by Thomas S. Bremer Leave a Comment

The writer’s table

As a writer I’m with Richard Powers in finding more fulfillment in preparing myself as a receptacle for the creative experience than in producing a daily word count.

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: AmWriting, creativity, productivity

Unlock the Better Treasures of Creativity When You Unleash Your Prophetic Voice

January 24, 2017 by Thomas S. Bremer Leave a Comment

Portrait of Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos

A life of writing must include a concerted effort to sell the fruits of creative effort. But we rob ourselves of better treasures when we write only for the market, when we work only for the rewards of remuneration. On the other hand, writers, all creative people, can be the prophetic voices of worlds they stand outside of. ♨

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: creativity, marketplace, voice

The Dam in My River: Seeking an Intimate Space for Writing

January 3, 2017 by Thomas S. Bremer Leave a Comment

The writer’s table

Every writer needs readers. Writing remains first and foremost an act of communication, a relationship of distances mediated in literacy. But too much attention to what readers want tends to dam up the river of creative ideas. For me, producing the text occurs in an intimate place far from earshot of appreciative readers. ♨

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: Allen Ginsberg, creativity, inspiration, platform, self-promotion, voice

The Better Treasures of Creativity

June 20, 2016 by Thomas S. Bremer Leave a Comment

Being creative

We rob ourselves of better treasures when we write only for the market, when we work only for the rewards of remuneration. We create to be alive.

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: alienation, capitalism, creativity, prophet

Driving in the Dark

June 25, 2014 by Thomas S. Bremer Leave a Comment

Moon over Los Angeles

Unable to see where I am or what lies in my immediate path should not prevent me from venturing out, as long as I have the vision of my destination to guide me.

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: AmWriting, creativity

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