imagination | imagination
Oct.08.2009
Some like it in amber and some like it red, I like my world in blue, like Farzana, who even likes tree with blue branches. But I feel enveloped in blue today. Plain blue. My mood too is floating in the blue ocean of my imagination. Perhaps, I am infatuated by ‘blumania’. I set my camera to...
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Oct.07.2009
We all need relationships that help us to feel special, safe, and understood. Real-life relationships that foster these feelings in us are the fundamental ground in which we find the courage and hope that we need to create. But what if we do not have such relationships in our life? Is creativity...
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Oct.01.2009
Yesterday’s walk brought no clouds, instead a hyacinth blue lake with a slight haze from the fires in the distance. As I saw the trees, I imagined how Van Gogh might have seen them, how the sun penetrated the green leaves just so, and how he had to show their glistening vibrancy; and how he...
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Sep.29.2009
My "dragédies" are now available on Amazon.com*.
What is a "dragedy" ?
You may have heard about "dragees", sweets you offer to somehow exorcise festive events - generally a wedding or a birth... dragedies basically and nonsensically announce death, which means they...
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Sep.22.2009
Amelia, my four-year-old, has had an imaginary friend named Shabalah since she was one. Don’t get the name? Me neither, and it’s always awkward introducing Shabalah to new people in our lives when they don’t know Amelia for the bright, creative, and perhaps emotionally disturbed child that she is...
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Sep.15.2009
Sometimes I think weird things, and the good news is that I'm a writer and can use them. But it is very likely that I'm a bit of a nutbar, so I can't blame writing for all my nutbarness.
For instance, sometimes when I am in a precarious situations, I think about things not crucial to life. This...
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Sep.08.2009
In the dream I felt very light hearted. I can't image why. I was pregnant and being chased by Nazis.
My hubby and I and four of our friends were having a great time sitting on the floor waiting for the Lamaze classes to start. People started trickling into the room. I was...
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Aug.10.2009
“Your flight has been rescheduled,” was the text message. It was followed by a voicemail. The messages were not for me.
My phone was in silent mode. I read and heard both these the next day. It was for a person with a very long name travelling on an international carrier from a far-off land. Why...
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Jul.30.2009
He might smirk at me and spit out that I am a romantic capitalist. Torun Honda, guru of the 2-D love movement, believes if you shun 3-D relationships your cup will runneth over.
We are given the example of Nisan who shares his home, his parents, his innermost secrets with Nemutan. He rubs her leg...
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Jul.25.2009
What is the extent of our capacity for imaginative empathy? When is it easy to put oneself in the place of other, and when is the stretch too far to manage?
I don't have much trouble imagining how Henry Louis Gates felt earlier this week when he was arrested at the door of his own home.
I was...
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