Creativity

I just learned about Gianni Rodari, a children's writer and Communist almost unknown in the US. I love this description from a New York Times article about him: To Rodari, imagination was always revolutionary, because he thought that, when readers picture different worlds, they stop taking existing conditions for granted and...

  During the second half of 2022, Bayo Akomolafe and I had a series of recorded Zoom conversations, with my Institute colleague Janet Wootten spurring us on, Bayo and I both wanted to make these conversations public. and you can find slightly edited transcripts of them here, titled A Meandering Search for Method: Becoming Human in a...

Today’s ponderings come from Winnie the Pooh, who I’m finding remarkably relevant to living/becoming/developing in this strange and scary 21st century. So philosophical! So Vygotskian! So post-postmodern!  (Thank you, A.A.Milne for your creation.)   “When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that...

I don't read very much poetry, so I'm new to the work of Alberto Rios. So far I love the poems of his I've read—and these words I've been pondering.  "I have been around other languages all my life, particularly Spanish, and have too often thought of the act of translation...

That's the title of a Women's Forum of New York panel organized and moderated by Women's Forum member and All Stars Project CEO Gabrielle Kurlander. I loved the diversity of our voices in response to Gabrielle's invitational questions. I hope you do too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRvnKgHQYc0&feature=youtu.be  ...