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Quote for Today: Louise Glück
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May 9, 2018 by katmcdaniel

Snowdrops Do you know what I was, how I lived? You know what despair is; then winter should have meaning …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: afraid, despair, joy, life, Louise Glück, new, rebirth, resilience, Snowdrops, Spring, survival, together, unexpected, winter
Quote for Today: Lois McMaster Bujold
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March 30, 2018 by katmcdaniel

It’s a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn’t even know you were aiming …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: arrive, bizarre, center, chance, Cordelia's Honor, feeling, hidden, Lois McMaster Bujold, meaning, purpose, serendipity, target, unexpected, wonderful
Quote for Today: Lawrence Block
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March 29, 2018 by katmcdaniel

One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: attention, awareness, find, Lawrence Block, looking, searching, serendipity, unexpected
Quote for Today: Shaun Tan
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March 28, 2018 by katmcdaniel

The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative act, …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: accidents, art, creativity, drawing, innovation, invention, mistake, necessary, originality, results, serendipity, Shaun Tan, unexpected, writing
Quote for Today: Irving Langmuir
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March 26, 2018 by katmcdaniel

You may define ‘serendipity’ as the art of profiting from unexpected occurrences. When you do things in that way …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: Aha, conclusion, direct, discovery, expectation, indirect, innovation, Irving Langmuir, process, profit, science, scientific method, serendipity, unexpected
Expanding Connections: Please Touch the Art
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March 3, 2018 by katmcdaniel

As artists, sometimes we assume that we understand our creations. Connecting with an audience shows us the things we miss. …
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Category: Being Creative, Videos | Tags: Andrew Myers, art, blind, connection, disability, expanding audience, George Wurtzel, humanity, perspective, screw art, tactile art, therapeutic, unexpected
Quote for Today: Eudora Welty
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March 3, 2018 by katmcdaniel

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: cause and effect, connection, Eudora Welty, experience, fiction, life, meaning, memory, On Writing, retrospect, sequence, unexpected, unknown, writing

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