Jane of All Trades

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook [...]

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Cowboy Philosophy

If it can’t be seen from the back of a galloping horse, it’s good enough.

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Bipolar Disorder and Creativity

The Bipolar Brain and the Creative Mind
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1675

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Creativity

“I put my heart and soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.”
– Vincent Van Gogh –
How much of van Gogh’s artistic ability and creativity was a direct result of his mental condition?   Hundreds of physicians and psychiatrists have tried to define van Gogh’s medical conditions over the years.  One of [...]

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Bipolar Bears

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Take the Long Range View

A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty’s horse to fly within the year — on the condition that if he didn’t succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year.
“Within a year,” the man explained later, “the king may die, or [...]

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This I Try to Remember….

“There are only two ways to live your life,
as though nothing is a miracle,
or as though everything is a miracle.”
— Albert Einstein

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