Fire Medicine and the Elixir of Life

Fire Medicine and the Elixir of Life

I visited Fu Yue, bestriding a dragon, Joined in marriage with the Weaving Maiden, Lifted up Heaven’s Net to capture evil, Drew the Bow of Heaven to shoot at wickedness, Followed the Immortals fluttering through the sky, Ate of the Primal Essence to prolong my...
Singing in the Brain

Singing in the Brain

Business people often say that they want creative employees.  But, they can’t agree on what that means.  (They can’t agree because what becomes creative is unknown, defined after the fact.)  They don’t know what it is, but they want it. In the quest for innovation,...
A Doodle Noodle

A Doodle Noodle

Most people believe that time and imagination cannot be coordinated.  A good idea seems to appear unexpectedly, on no schedule at all.  And when an idea doesn’t come, we feel stagnated, desperate for a fresh breeze of insight that doesn’t come when we want it. Then...
The Ten-Year-Old Samurai

The Ten-Year-Old Samurai

“Perhaps it is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.” Akira Kurosawa* In 1920, a ten-year old boy in fifth grade, dressed in samurai hamaka pants and kimono, with a bamboo Kendo sword tied in his sash was attacked by 7 or 8 other boys armed...