In my senior seminar class, students study the creative process, then create an artifact to help them to remember how they want to live their lives. One of my students designed a poster, and this is what it said:
Promises I Swear To Keep To My Creative Self
1) I promise that I will do something creative every single [...]
When do you know that you are --really-- a writer?
When you see a picture of your book on Amazon?
When you win a writing award?
When you actually hold your first published article in your actual hand?
When you get your first fan letter?
When wikipedia decides that you are "notable"
When you read a glowing review of your book?
When you pull out a special pen and [...]
This morning, I visited an English class at Petoskey High School. We talked about how Tolkien pursued his private hobby of invented languages, and how he expressed his creative world in poetry and myth. We looked at his friendship with C. S. Lewis and considered the implications of Tolkien's claim that Lewis is the one [...]
In my lecture this weekend, I'll talk about Tolkien's poem "The Tale of Tinuviel." Here is a link to a recording of Tolkien reading that incomparable poem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhDgJwcJcVk&feature=related
"The leaves were long, the grass was green,
The hemlock-umbels tall and fair,
And in the glade a light was seen
Of stars in shadow shimmering.
Tinuviel was dancing there
To music of a pipe [...]
Wheaton College and the good folks at the Wade Center do a *GREAT* job of introducing speakers. This press release comes from their website:
October 20, 2010
Author Diana Glyer to Speak at the Wade Center on
“C.S. Lewis’s Fingerprints on the Map of Middle-Earth”
Author Diana Pavlac Glyer, presents a lecture titled “C.S. Lewis’s Fingerprints on the Map of Middle-Earth,” [...]
I teach a required general studies course called Introduction to Literature. It's a standard course at most universities. When I teach it, we spend the first seven weeks looking at poetry. I have a step-by-step method of analysis that I teach them: I take all the usual stuff like metaphor and rhythm patterns and onomatopoetic [...]
From the news page of The Marion E. Wade Center
Talk by Dr. Diana Glyer at the Wade Center:
"C.S. Lewis’s Fingerprints on the Map of Middle-earth”
Wednesday, October 20, 4:00 p.m.
Diana Pavlac Glyer, Ph.D. will present a talk based on her investigation of collaboration among the Inklings at the Marion E. Wade Center. The lecture, "C.S.Lewis’s Fingerprints on the [...]
Sometimes "inspiring creative connections" is nothing more than sharing the way that something very small and particular can light up your day. Here ya go:
Blog: Jeri's Organizing & Decluttering News
Post: The Little Things: Colorful Staples
Link: http://jdorganizer.blogspot.com/2010/09/little-things-colorful-staples.html
(hat tip to Michael Ward)
The name of this blog is QWERTY-- because the image of individual typewriter keys working together to produce something great speaks to me of creativity in community. I also love the combination of sound and touch and sight that comes together when the type-writing is going well.
So I was pleased when Michael Ward [...]
AslansCountry.com did a nice job describing the C.S. Lewis Literary Festival, comping up this October in Petoskey, Michigan.
Take a look: http://www.aslanscountry.com/2010/09/2010-c-s-lewis-festival/