May 23, 2006

Art Inseparable from the Railroad, Insurance Office, Joint-Stock Company

- Crossroads Dispatches

Wow, what an amazing week. Too much to fill you in on and I'm off to Seattle where I'm staying at The Alexis, which according to their site is: "A Work of Art", is committed to the local arts... ›››

Category: Innovators and Creators | The Future of Work

May 15, 2006

It Takes a Lifetime to Create a Masterpiece

- Crossroads Dispatches

I'm listening to Bette Midler's The Rose on an iPod as I write. On Friday night, a few friends were at my friend's Ruby's place helping out just prior to her first public showing of her artwork in over... ›››

Category: Awareness | Innovators and Creators | Teachable Moments | The Greater Hunger

May 11, 2006

Someday When I Make A Fortune I'll Rent My Fridge Out

- Crossroads Dispatches

Maybe you've seen those Wells Fargos ads. "Someday we'll have a guestroom," as the couple contemplate their (red?) couch with their snoring friend in the living room. "Someday we'll make a fortune" is particularly bland -- a way too... ›››

Category: Awareness | Innovators and Creators | Teachable Moments

May 10, 2006

Write Like Your Heart Speaks

- Crossroads Dispatches

The first day I began writing last week, May 2nd - I mean really writing, I've been talking about writing a book since I was seven or nine - Ruby said, "What time are you starting?" "Today?" "What time... ›››

Category: Clear and Resonant Marketing | Innovators and Creators | Start-Ups | writing

May 03, 2006

A Metaphor is Worth a Thousand Pictures

- Crossroads Dispatches

What is it about metaphors that makes them so vivid? The bite in the Apple logo at once conveys the garden of Eden, wisdom, crossing the lines of convention, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.... ›››

April 27, 2006

I Imagine That Yes is the Only Living Thing

- Crossroads Dispatches

You'd think we lived in the Pacific Northwest with the record-setting rain we'd been getting. The forecast was for intermittent rain again through the weekend. This particular Easter weekend I'd scheduled a retreat with friends up at Hidden Villa.... ›››

Category: Awareness | Clear and Resonant Marketing | Innovators and Creators

April 26, 2006

The Marriage of Receptivity and Presence

- Crossroads Dispatches

I promised to share more on how inspiration plays a pivotal role in innovation and conceiving unique marketing ideas. This post isn't instructive as much as one that puts you in the mood to inquire about inspiration, receptivity, and... ›››

Category: Awareness | Clear and Resonant Marketing | Innovators and Creators | writing

April 24, 2006

The Ho-Hum Business Vision Quest

- Crossroads Dispatches

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal... ›››

Category: Awareness | Clear and Resonant Marketing | Innovators and Creators

April 20, 2006

Heart-storming

- Crossroads Dispatches

I was so inspired to post on my return from my retreat on Tuesday (actually it's not a retreat as in going back, but a dwelve: to dwell in awareness, to inhabit my self, to fathom and penetrate a... ›››

Category: Awareness | Clear and Resonant Marketing | Innovators and Creators | The Greater Hunger

April 14, 2006

First Flight

- Crossroads Dispatches

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid. - Dorothea BrandeI did not intend to write a post for today because "I'm way too busy preparing materials for the retreat this weekend." Small group, friends of friends... ›››

Category: Awareness | Innovators and Creators

April 13, 2006

Do Buddhist Marketers Talk About Grace?

- Crossroads Dispatches

I met a new friend and fellow marketer yesterday. I presumed he was Buddhist, but he dropped the word grace into our conversation one too many times. "Do Buddhists talk about grace?" "I'm not Buddhist." Oh, of course. I... ›››

Category: Awareness | Clear and Resonant Marketing | Innovators and Creators | Marketing | Start-Ups

April 07, 2006

Straight to the Art

- Crossroads Dispatches

Pictured right is an entry from one of Janice Lowry's journals. The artist has kept journals for her entire adult life. "It's the cheapest therapy a person can do," she says. - from Somerset Studio's Signatures: The Art Journal... ›››

Category: Innovators and Creators | Storytelling | Tsunami | writing

April 05, 2006

How To Be In Service of (Your) Art

- Crossroads Dispatches

I don't care for coffee. The aroma's otherworldly - the taste disappoints. I prefer tea. Yet here I sit this moment sipping the Cacophony, an ecstatic blend of organic dark chocolate, a dash of cayenne pepper and espresso, at... ›››

Category: Awareness | Clear and Resonant Marketing | Innovators and Creators | announcements

April 04, 2006

How Do You Step From The Top of a 100-Foot Pole?

- Crossroads Dispatches

I don't reside in a world of competition or pecking orders or ladders of winners and losers but other people sometimes do. I realized that last night at a small group that meets weekly at our house where we... ›››

Category: Awareness | Innovators and Creators | Teachable Moments

March 31, 2006

A Psychedelic Quest into the Beat Heart

- Crossroads Dispatches

"And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice." - 1 Kings 19:12 Simon Wincester in his book about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, A Crack... ›››

Sound Familiar? Apple's Psychedelic Psychographics

- Crossroads Dispatches

Daring Fireball chastises and riffs on SF Chronicle's Sunday story on "Stubborn Apple at Risk of Making Same Mistake Twice":In a way, Apple’s survival is remarkable, author Kahney said, like a dinosaur living beyond the Ice Age. All the... ›››

20 Amphetamine-Fueled Days

- Crossroads Dispatches

"I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they... ›››

March 23, 2006

Edgy is Hot & Has Blogging 1.0 Souled Out?

- Crossroads Dispatches

I find the Beats sexy because they weren't Yes men (yeah, most of them were men, a few misogynists, and check out Diane di Prima). (Psst...the opposite of Yes-men isn't a No-man). As I write I recall a line... ›››

March 21, 2006

How Bloggers Ate the World

- Crossroads Dispatches

"In some futuristic hell, robotic serfs gaze at a giant screen showing the crazed rantings of what is plainly George Orwell’s Big Brother. An athletically clad girl races in. She is pursued by helmeted goons and she carries a... ›››

Ambrosia for the Muse: 'Developing Talent' Blog

- Crossroads Dispatches

RARELY do I add new blogs to my reading anymore. Just added to daily fix list: Developing Talent: the inner experience of creative talent. Too much synchonicity not too. Salons AND 1984? from "Salons and Blogging": "While the old-style... ›››

Category: Innovators and Creators | Web/Tech