Creative, anyone?

[Gail]

What is the most creative thing you've ever done?

[Dr. Shane]

Peanut butter and mayonaise sandwich

[Amelia]

During my high school sr. yr. I was the costume designer for a small 2 act play. I researched and designed all the costumes. In the process I sketched and colored costume panels that I entered in a college gallery showing of theater art. I didn't win anything but got very very good comments from teachers and actual theatrical costumers.

I think my whole creative spark peaked and then died by the time I was out of college.

[Bravus]

I think my poetry, such as it is, is perhaps my main creative endeavour.

I guess starting off a book about educational research with jokes about zombies is kinda creative too, if you squint your eyes right.

[Amelia]

Hey, writing a book is way creative dude!

[Naomi]

I've painted a lot of pictures ... had a small book of poems published, seems like another lifetime.

I think the most creative thing I've ever done was taking a 100-plus year old house, solid, but badly in need of repair and turned (turning) it into a really pretty home.

Every time I think of the number of people who told me it should be bulldozed I go back to work!

[Bravus]

Very cool stuff, Naomi.

I'm very tempted to drag together all the little bits of poetry I've written over the years - all the ones with some broader application than a particular time and place - and try to get a slim volume published... We'll see.

[Naomi]

You should do that! Leave your footprints in a nice binding for future generations.

I'm always going to write the great novel ... but think the operative word here is "going to"

I am glad I had one published ... back in the early 70ties when it seemed easier than today.

[Barbara]

The most creative thing I have done was to write poems.

[Naomi]

That is being creative ... be proud of your talent.

[D. Allan]

Almost 15 yrs. ago I wrote what is called a 'piano quartet.' That's a string quartet + piano (= 2 violins, 1 viola, 1 cello, 1 piano.)

Painted a few pictures.

Lately, I've been writing hymn arragements for 1 piano. And making songs of Emily Dickinson's poems.

My poetry never amounted to much. Had 1 poem published by a college publication in Texas.

The most creative thing: a son, 2 daughters! But how much credit can a take for that? None probably. Come to think about it - what credit can I take for the music, art or poetry either? Where did the training come from? The desire? The inspiration? It happened. I had nothing to do with it.

[Naomi]

Well, now that you mention it ... none of us can take credit for where the inspiration came. We can take credit for being willing vessels.

[Dr. Shane]

I wrote a whole book of poems to a girlfriend once and she dumped me. I guess they were not that good So I only sang songs for my wife. I guess I am a better singer than writer.

[D. Allan]

Quote:

she dumped me. I guess they were not that good

She must not have been good muse! The fault is hers.

[Gail]

I am impressed!!!

[D. Allan]

Just one violin in the 'piano quartet.' My brain seems to never get any thing right on the first try! With two it would be a 'piano quintet.' Robert Schuman and Johannes Brhams wrote some piano quintets that are magnificent! And Schubert's, on my if you never heard it, you are missing in important part of life; it includes a double bass.

[Sammy Lee]

I feel a little creative after I read Ethel Nelson's book: "The Discovery of Genesis". I decided to apply what I read into my effort in mastering the Chinese writing as fast as possible.

So I analyzed every word that I learn and try to find out the original meaning of the root words or pictures and remember it as picture description of the idea in every word. ("One picture is worth ten thousand words.")

For instance when I study the word "I" or "wo" 我, I found out that it consists of two components, or parts, on the left is the drawing of a "hand"(shou), and on the second half is the drawing of an ancient forklike "spear". So the word "wo" or "I/me" means "I am a powerful person holding a weapon of war". The word "you"(ni) is a combination of "man/person" + "balancing scale" 你, so "you are also a person/man/human being, equal with me." "He/she" (third person singular) in Chinese is "ta" , which is a combination of "person/man/human being" and "also"(ye), thus: He/she is also a human being, equally made just like "you and me", we are all human beings created equally by God." This has helped me master the basic vocabulary which I learned in about 6 months time, and most of it stick in my memory until now.

[Gail]

Wow!

[rudywoofs (Pam)]

I think the most creative thing I ever did was to win the National Nycomed Scientific Essay Competition on: IONIZING RADIATION-INDUCED TASTE AVERSION: An Overview and Comparitive Analysis on Conditioninng and Mediation. I think I won by default because nobody seemed to have a clue what I was talking about. Oh well. Got a nice bronze plaque for it.

[Amelia]

WOW Pam, that article title is as amazing as Bravus' book title. I didn't understand that either.

[Naomi]

WOW Pam, that article title is as amazing as Bravus' book title. I didn't understand that either.

Me neither ... but I'm impressed! :E

[rudywoofs (Pam)]

the basic premise is the when x-radiation is applied at the same time as an action that is pleasurable (i.e. smoking), the pleasurable action becomes aversive....avoidance of that formerly pleasurable action then becomes the norm.

Probably won't become the latest and greatest panacea for the Stop Smoking Clinics though...