Monthly Archives: May 2014
Amor fati, to love your fate
Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery An exploration of how “discoveries, innovations, and creative endeavors often, perhaps even only, come from uncommon ground” and why this “improbable ground of creative endeavor” is an enormous source of … Continue reading
Themes of F Scott – Still Relevant Today
As relevant today as it was in F. Scotts’ day: Central Theme The corruption and failure of the American Dream, and the false and distorted forms in which that dream exists in the modern world. Secondary Themes and Concerns American … Continue reading
My Favorite Author’s New Book
Taps at Reveille F. Scott Fitzgerald Cambridge University Press, May 31, 2014 – Fiction – 350 pages F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Taps at Reveille is one of the author’s strongest collections of short fiction. It brings together several of his best … Continue reading
Make a living from one’s Vocation
Picasso on Success and Why You Should Never Compromise in Your Art “One must have the courage of one’s vocation and the courage to make a living from one’s vocation.” Imagine immensities. Pick yourself up from rejection and plow ahead. … Continue reading