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It’s interesting that after the chapter on “Service“ Cameron follows up with Guidelines aimed primarily defining what creative clusters are NOT (241).

“Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little,” says Edna Ferber (225). My corollary to this is, “FOMO obscured my foreground.”

If women carry their creativity like a “pregnancy” (223), how do men carry theirs? Like bombs to drop?

“We find the creator by creating” (217). How we re-create in church often depends more on how we repeat than how we respond. How we respond depends on what we trust. We not supposed to trust people but the process of becoming.

Stature is not synonymous with success. For example, playing campfire with a half dozen of the residents at Sandstone was transformative in a way many Sunday mornings were not.

We must become creative about being creative.

By not reading this book on schedule, I think I might have missed something. I returned to it—specifically the chapter on encouragement—after finishing another book and found that it got me off the couch.

Doing creative work, “we need before, during and after friends” (190).

Ueland advocates for my liberation: “if you have a kind of cultured know-it-all in yourself who takes pleasure in pointing out what is not good, in discriminating, reasoning, and comparing, you are bound under a knave. I wish you could be delivered.” I have sniped.

Sandwich call: call a friend and tell of an artistic step that needs taking; call back to say’ “I did it,” or “mission accomplished.”

Assignment: for restlessness, visit a church, wilderness or Louis Vuitton store. The friction between identity and place may be what “home” in the Odysseus sense is about (187).

“Fear becomes a cue for prayer” (183). As my worst fears become reality, I sent out a poem about it: “Seating Charts.” If a poem is like a prayer because it “confesses” the truth, we surrender to consequences, to justice. As a pine once told me, “we are both blessed/to have made it this far/with anything to lose.”