Comments on: Cut, Baby, Cut http://www.michaelmcmillan.com/cut-baby-cut Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:38:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Michael http://www.michaelmcmillan.com/cut-baby-cut#comment-250 Michael Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:55:18 +0000 http://www.michaelmcmillan.com/?p=1045#comment-250 Creativity is our most powerful human asset... what more important subject to teach? Creativity/innovation has enabled us to survive and develop. Interesting dream, Zan... follow it and see what surfaces. Thanks for weighing in. Creativity is our most powerful human asset… what more important subject to teach? Creativity/innovation has enabled us to survive and develop. Interesting dream, Zan… follow it and see what surfaces. Thanks for weighing in.

]]> By: Zan Lombardo http://www.michaelmcmillan.com/cut-baby-cut#comment-110 Zan Lombardo Sat, 22 May 2010 11:37:09 +0000 http://www.michaelmcmillan.com/?p=1045#comment-110 Mike, Next time I'm in Illinois visiting my dad, I'd love to connect with you in person. I agree that creativity is an often overlooked, yet powerful tool to solve problems and live joyfully and sustainably. In this largely left-brained society, I often feel like I'm swimming against the current as an artist and art educator. I keep doing what I do, though, and am glad to do it. And speaking of fish... I once had a dream that I understood the difference between children and adults. I dreamed the molecules of children are spacious, moving through the ocean like a school of fish. Whereas, the molecules of adults are hardened like a ship. They both move through the water, but with adults, you can hear the *clunk* of new ideas hitting up against the hull. Mike,
Next time I’m in Illinois visiting my dad, I’d love to connect with you in person. I agree that creativity is an often overlooked, yet powerful tool to solve problems and live joyfully and sustainably. In this largely left-brained society, I often feel like I’m swimming against the current as an artist and art educator. I keep doing what I do, though, and am glad to do it.

And speaking of fish…
I once had a dream that I understood the difference between children and adults. I dreamed the molecules of children are spacious, moving through the ocean like a school of fish. Whereas, the molecules of adults are hardened like a ship. They both move through the water, but with adults, you can hear the *clunk* of new ideas hitting up against the hull.

]]> By: Michael http://www.michaelmcmillan.com/cut-baby-cut#comment-106 Michael Thu, 20 May 2010 18:17:54 +0000 http://www.michaelmcmillan.com/?p=1045#comment-106 Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Mac. I'm unfamiliar with this book but plan to check it out. I realized long ago that mans ability to create is our most powerful asset. It is what separates us from other animals and has enabled us to survive and develop all these years. Too little leads to stagnation, while too much can lead to mental illness… at least in the eyes of a “normal” society. Creativity is an abstract and delicate thing... but without it we wouldn't be here. If we don't embrace it soon and continue doing "business as usual," we won't be in the future. Thanks for doing all you do to fight the status quo and expose reality. Time has a way of revealing the true heroes... and those supporting Mega-Dumps won't be on the list. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Mac. I’m unfamiliar with this book but plan to check it out. I realized long ago that mans ability to create is our most powerful asset. It is what separates us from other animals and has enabled us to survive and develop all these years. Too little leads to stagnation, while too much can lead to mental illness… at least in the eyes of a “normal” society. Creativity is an abstract and delicate thing… but without it we wouldn’t be here. If we don’t embrace it soon and continue doing “business as usual,” we won’t be in the future. Thanks for doing all you do to fight the status quo and expose reality. Time has a way of revealing the true heroes… and those supporting Mega-Dumps won’t be on the list.

]]> By: Mac McIntyre http://www.michaelmcmillan.com/cut-baby-cut#comment-105 Mac McIntyre Thu, 20 May 2010 03:30:09 +0000 http://www.michaelmcmillan.com/?p=1045#comment-105 Interesting read as always, Michael. A fascinating book with no known author tells of a long Andite dispersion of people from Mesopotamia to South America, and lost groups of them that never made it to the final destination, because of detours for various reasons. Easter Island was long a religious and administrative center of one of these lost groups, according to the book. http://tinyurl.com/2a2ksax It would seem that creativity is the essential tool of evolution and finding oneself in paradise and becoming too comfortable in it to challenge creativity is its barrier. Interesting read as always, Michael.

A fascinating book with no known author tells of a long Andite dispersion of people from Mesopotamia to South America, and lost groups of them that never made it to the final destination, because of detours for various reasons. Easter Island was long a religious and administrative center of one of these lost groups, according to the book. http://tinyurl.com/2a2ksax

It would seem that creativity is the essential tool of evolution and finding oneself in paradise and becoming too comfortable in it to challenge creativity is its barrier.

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