Chris Published in Northwest Quarterly magazine!

2013 Creative Stuffs

Moments of Creative Joy

People, places, and things weaved in from rich source material in Chris Dunmire's ongoing life- and creativity playshop.

• Article about Winneshiek Players in Freeport, Illinois
  Includes excerpts from my interviews with board VP Mark Jansen and director Tara Gundry for Northwest Quarterly magazine.
• 6 Optical Illusions that will knock your socks off!
  Visual funnery with this warning: You might get motion sickness!

• Thanked in New Running Press Creativity Manual
  By my good friend and coach mentor Jill Badonsky.
• My Quirky Q & A with Creativity Author Jill Badonsky
  During the blog tour for her new book The Muse Is In.
• 4 Games I Made Up Inside Badonsky's Creativity Manual
  With this essential creativity lesson: Yes, you can do your own thing in other people's books!

Creative Slush: 19.3% Inspiration, 78.7% Perspiration, 2% Sugar (for the ants).

By Chris Dunmire

Thomas Edison broke a lot of light bulbs trying to figure things out. But he didn't have the Internet, either. Can you imagine what he'd invent today if he could Google stuff? What he'd teach others as an anonymous Wikipedia editor? How much he might collaborate with open minds all over the world through LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook?

We live in exciting times. Our information age with its digital archiving, social networking, and crowd sourcing has brought humans together in the most unprecedented way history has ever known. Ironically, on some levels, we are more united and divided than ever.

Evolution and conscious awakening are present as ever. Take a step back and just observe. It's like we are single streams of consciousness coming together, flowing into a widening river of expansiveness, and emptying into an ocean of grand possibilities. Where will we be in 5, 10, 50, 100 years?

Musings & inner dialogue. Thoughts on creativity. Where inspiration meets perspiration. The keys to creativity. Unlearning. Relearning. Adaptive execution. Comic relief. Brainstorming. Play. Humor. All these and more is what my Creative Slush site-blog is about. It's my online adventure. A virtual workshop of imagination unleashing endless energy — climaxing into a celebration of masterpieces and messes. It's a reflection of how just one human relates to the world through her vision, experiences, and evolution.

Get inspired. Be creative. (And please, don't step on the ants!)