{"id":522,"date":"2009-02-20T23:29:51","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T04:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/?p=522"},"modified":"2009-02-20T23:29:54","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T04:29:54","slug":"enigma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/?p=522","title":{"rendered":"enigma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>must&#8217;ve seemed like i had taken the loot, said a public thank you, then rode off into the sunset. <\/p>\n<p>not the case.<\/p>\n<p>just have had no where to sit, and no time to sit &#8211; sitting being a prerequisite (for me, anyway) for stitching. but now &#8211; just today &#8211; i began to create an image i&#8217;ve been carrying around for weeks. there&#8217;s no translation, no explanation. just the image.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/enigma1.jpg\" alt=\"enigma1.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"375\" height=\"460\" \/><\/div>\n<p>which leaves me (once again) pondering creativity. the intriguing, captivating mystery of creativity. <\/p>\n<p>a few years ago, my son introduced me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/index.php\/pages\/view\/id\/5\">TED<\/a>, a convergence of creative, innovative thinkers and doers who gathered under the umbrella of technology, entertainment, and design. since its inception in 1984, the scope of TED has grown and expanded, while the concept remains the same. my son and i immediately put it on our list of things we want to do before we die: attend the TED conference. now, thanks to http:\/\/www.ted.com, we can!<\/p>\n<p>anyway, this month <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/index.php\/talks\/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html\">elizabeth gilbert<\/a> (author of eat, pray, love) presented a different way to think about creativity. after reminding us of the way ancient greeks and romans viewed creativity, gilbert proposes that we are not creative geniuses but we <em>have<\/em> creative geniuses. as gilbert says, the notion that we, ourselves, are not totally responsible for the creative end product somehow takes the edge off the immense responsibility creatives often assume.<\/p>\n<p>take a few (about 20) minutes and watch the video. we&#8217;ll talk later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>must&#8217;ve seemed like i had taken the loot, said a public thank you, then rode off into the sunset. not the case. just have had no where to sit, and no time to sit &#8211; sitting being a prerequisite (for me, anyway) for stitching. but now &#8211; just today &#8211; i began to create an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[44,9,11,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-embers","category-fodder","category-natural-curl"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}