I found this TED Talk to be inspiring and compassionate. Alain de Botton acknowledges that it takes more than individual human will to be successful and therefore failure has a very different meaning. His idea about Greek tragedies being insights into human error was also perceptive. And he has a good sense of humor. Tweet

Experimental failure. The phrase jumped from the book and spun my mind around. What? Experimental failure. I started laughing as I reread the phrase in the book I’d found in the goodwill store. The book is about design but the juicy part is that the intro was written by Buckminster Fuller, one of my idols. [...]

The dream came to me at just the right time. I had been floundering, unable to get my footing emotionally and feeling as if giving up were the right solution to my problems. I wanted to leave the creative life alone for some version of whatever I imagined “normal life” to be. It seemed to [...]

I had to wonder why some failures are more traumatic than others after reading this article. I mean my creative expression has run the gamut from being what I thought of as very good to “what happened with that piece?” My responses to this range of creative success vary as well. The work I do [...]

When I was a child, my brother, cousin and myself were playing a game where we had to find Bible verses my parents gave us. I was losing. I was searching through the Bible every time they asked us to find a particular verse. Time consuming. I didn’t have a lot of time but I [...]

The last two weeks were intense. I wanted to give up on my creativity and have a “normal” life. I was putting in a lot of work but not seeing much results. Success was elusive while failure seemed to be the outcome of most of my initiatives. I began to question my judgment: “How can [...]