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Pamela Bayard Foard
May 18, 20244 min read
Conjuring the Rest of Your Life
Let’s face it, creativity can be elusive and frustrating, somewhat like waking up in the morning and trying to remember the dream you...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
May 4, 20244 min read
Is Imagination More Important than Knowledge?
How can we use our imagination with knowledge to create a better world?
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Pamela Bayard Foard
Apr 28, 20244 min read
The End
We all know it’s out there, from the time we’re little kids. We know it’s coming, it’s part of being alive. At some point, our current...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
Apr 28, 20244 min read
Reach Out and Touch Someone
Several years ago, I met someone who had spent a day with the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism.
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Pamela Bayard Foard
Apr 8, 20244 min read
How Do We Know When to Move On?
To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose I’ve been a classical violinist since the age of twelve. There was a violin...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
Apr 8, 20244 min read
How Does Time (or lack thereof) Affect Creativity?
" To achieve great things, you need a plan and not quite enough time ." Leonard Bernstein The quote above by the brilliant...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
Mar 24, 20244 min read
Crises - Do They Help or Hinder Creativity?
First of all, let’s agree that, even though it doesn’t seem that way on any given day, most of the world is getting along remarkably...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
Mar 13, 20244 min read
Which Learner/Creator are You, Visual, Aural or...Kinesthetic(!!!)?
Okay, calm down, kinesthetic simply means moving, using your body, doing. And some people (about five percent of the population) learn...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
Mar 8, 20244 min read
Why is Form Essential to Creators?
“True art takes note not merely of form, but also of what lies behind.” Mahatma Ghandi I live in the neighborhood of San Pedro,...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
Mar 3, 20244 min read
Which Are You, Introvert or Extravert?
“ Quiet people have the loudest minds .” Stephen Hawking Ever since I started writing seriously, with an intent to share my work, I’ve...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
Mar 3, 20244 min read
Is the Best Way to Create to be Scared Shitless?
“ Your fear will always be triggered by your creativity, because creativity asks you to enter into realms of uncertain outcome, and fear...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
Feb 15, 20244 min read
The BS Behind the Myths of Youth, Age, and Creativity
“ There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love....
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Pamela Bayard Foard
Feb 7, 20244 min read
Chaos!! Run Away!!!
“ Without order nothing can exist - without chaos nothing can evolve .” Oscar Wilde If you’ve ever attended an orchestra concert and...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
Feb 4, 20244 min read
How Do Your Closely Held Beliefs Influence Your Creativity?
" In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine ." Ralph Waldo Emerson Remember the Disney movie,...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
Feb 1, 20245 min read
We Live in a Colorful World. Does It Effect Our Creativity?
"I found I could say things with colors and shapes that I couldn't say any other way; things I had no words for." Georgia O'Keefe When I...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
Jan 25, 20245 min read
Commodity Invades Creativity!
“My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.” Robert Mapplethorpe That quote by artist...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
Jan 19, 20244 min read
How Do Wonder and Awe Make Us More Creative?
There was a day many years ago when I was driving in Wisconsin, doing some shopping errands close to my home at the time. My mind was,...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
Jan 8, 20245 min read
Does Humor Help Us To Be Creative?
" If at first the idea is not absurd, then there's no hope for it ." Albert Einstein Most human beings recognize humor very early in...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
Jan 1, 20244 min read
How Much Creativity Do We Lose in Systems of Control?
From the time we’re born, we are interacting with systems of control. It may not seem that way, since typically our families love and...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
Dec 16, 20235 min read
Do Video Games Help Creativity?
When our two sons were growing up in the 1980’s, we were some of the first people in our suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin to own a PC...
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