Disrupting the Status Quo
“Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.” ~ George Henry Lewes, English philosopher and critic of literature and theatre What’s my own story on the topic of disrupting the status quo? At a turning point in my...
byLucy Shenouda
Slow Down. Pack Your Patience.
It's hard to slow down at any time of the year, to practice patience. And, it's particularly hard during a change of seasons. Real and metaphoric. And, it’s that time of year, again. Back to school. Back to work ......
byLucy Shenouda
Pack Your Patience
It’s also a time we say: “Summer’s over!” with a deep-seated sense of reluctance. It’s as though we are getting ready to pack it in, to move on to another season before it’s actually begun. It’s habitual, a societal norm....
byLucy Shenouda
Polarizing Views
Paul Bloom said: “Enjoying fiction requires a shift in selfhood. You give up your own identity and try on the identities of other people, adopting their perspectives so as to share their experiences. This allows us to enjoy fictional events...
byLucy Shenouda
Here Be Dragons
Turbulence, a state of confusion and disorganized change, has from my vantage in the eye of the storm, set off reactivity in the atmospheric system. I notice that in all three recent cases the reactivity started with a tendency towards...
byLucy Shenouda
The Quest for Creativity – Chapter 2: Being a Hostage to Certainty
The quest for creativity is a lifelong learning process. The potential for creativity, in my view, is immense. I lean in on what I learned as a child, to pursue creativity with a bucket load of curiousity, eyes open, alert,...
byLucy Shenouda
