Exploring Your Creative Genius: Choreographed Hallucinations
In this week’s show I shared nearly a dozen quotes from Picasso and Emerson and others on various aspects of being creative.
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Daily and Weekly Features
On the Porch: Dr. James Wood – Sports Around the World
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James Wood is currently Professor of Latin American and modern world history at North Carolina A&T State University. He is the author of The Society of Equality: Popular Republicanism and Democracy in Santiago de Chile, 1818-1851 and the co-editor of “Problems in Modern Latin American History: Sources and Interpretations”, now in its fifth edition with Rowman and Littlefield. As a Fulbright scholar for Chile in 2016 he was a visiting professor at the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago (where he observed Chilean student activism up close).
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Exploring Your Creative Genius: Traditions and Tales
The Museum of Ojibwa Culture is located at St. Ignace in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Shirley Sorrel was the director of the Museum in 2014; she called me when she learned that ‘Anung’s Journey’ was being published.
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On the Porch: Bill Brown – Art and Science Merge at NCMA
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Bill Brown joined the North Carolina Museum of Art as a Conservation Intern in 1988. Thirty-two years later he retired from the Art Museum as Chief Conservator. He received his M.A. and Certificate of Advanced Studies in Conservation from State University College at Buffalo, NY in 1989. At the Museum, he established the Art + Science Initiative, a collaborative program with Duke University math and science departments. Bill has a passion for Italian Old Master Paintings of the 14th to 18th century. He works part-time as a conservator in private practice and provides conservation support for the Museum and Gallery collection of old master paintings at Bob Jones University in Greenville, SC . He enjoys retirement with his wife and young adult son.
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Judy Miller’s Not Ready for the Farm: Aging at Home: Hope is on the Way!
This week – In this heartfelt and inspiring episode of Not Ready for the Farm, Judy and Jess sit down with Nora Spencer, founder and CEO of Hope Renovations, to explore how one innovative nonprofit is changing lives across North Carolina. From empowering women and non-binary people through construction training to helping older adults safely age in place, Nora shares the deeply personal experiences, bold ideas, and unlikely path that led her to create a nationally recognized organization.
Not Ready for the Farm is proudly presented by: Purple Puddle, Clarity Legal Group, West Fork Wealth Management, Health Source Chiropractic, HOPE Renovations, and The 79°West Innovation Hub.
Not Ready for the Farm is proudly presented by: Purple Puddle, Clarity Legal Group, Health Source Chiropractic, HOPE Renovations, and The 79°West Innovation Hub.
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Chansky’s Notebook: What Happened to Henri?
Blame Henri Veesaar’s baffling slide in the NBA Draft on the muddled way the league and its agents do business.
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Exploring Your Creative Genius: ‘Ancestral Landscapes’ and Meaning Through Origin
Exploring Your Creative Genius: Episode 163...
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On the Porch: Nora Gaskin – Conjuring Crime Stories
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Author Nora Gaskin is a lifelong resident of the Durham-Chapel Hill area. Her latest is novel is “Lammie Loves Cubby”. Nora has a bachelor’s degree in English with Honors in Creative Writing from UNC, and a Masters in English from the University of Washington in Seattle. She spent over 24 years as a stockbroker and financial advisor in the Durham office of a major investment firm. She retired in 2005 to focus on writing. She is the publisher at Lystra Books and Literary Services and the author of three novels and one nonfiction book. She lives and writes in Chatham County, inspired by her native landscape, her husband, and dogs. Her favorite word is “gratitude.”
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Judy Miller’s Not Ready for the Farm: All’s Well That “Endswell”
This week – Judy and Jess sit down with Hunter Beattie of Endswell Funeral Home to explore how a moment of reflection sparked by Desmond Tutu led him to a complete rethinking of modern death care. Hunter shares the origin story behind Endswell and what it means to be a “modern” funeral home, grounded in sustainability, transparency, and more human-centered practices.
Not Ready for the Farm is proudly presented by: Purple Puddle, Clarity Legal Group, Health Source Chiropractic, HOPE Renovations, and The 79°West Innovation Hub.
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Exploring Your Creative Genius: Refreshing and Boosting Your Creativity
This week’s show offered a collection of creativity tips you can leverage easily for a nice creative boost. At the end of the show I talked about open-endedness. Let’s revisit it with a focus on children in the 6 to 10 age range.
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