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| mourning dove |
Last month, reality settled in my joints, slowing movements in all directions. I'm still a writer and a fighter, but I sustained a pretty hard blow. I'm somewhat dazed because half of me is searching for answers I'll never find. This month, I resolve to climb all the way back in the writing rink and return to regular exercise too. Wish me luck!
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| song sparrow |
I neglected to mention, in January the Royal Society of Chemistry published my
article on vultures. It was challenging to write that in one week because I don't consider myself a fast writer. The edits for that article arrived on January 13th, not a great time by any means. It was extraordinarily difficult to focus on revision, but I did my best because I was dealing with a new editor. After emailing my edits, I informed the editor of the situation.
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| mourning dove |
I'm halfway through a six-week massive open online
creativity course. I'm glad I signed up for this because it's serving two purposes. First, it's keeping me busy when I really need to be kept busy. Second, I'm trying to squeeze every ounce of creativity out of me.
I have always considered myself creative, but I'd like to strengthen that if I can. I've learned that creativity involves original ideas and divergent thinking. At the start of the class, I took a creativity assessment. I did pretty well on originality, but only mediocre on divergent thinking (the number and uniqueness of ideas). I also learned that my most original ideas aren't my first ideas. Since play stimulates creativity, I went sledding as a class assignment. Now that was a thrill!
