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The New Idea: cywydd llosgyrnoch
A new idea finds the mind and digs itself a home behind what it finds still living there, rewiring lights and such to suit, requiring sometimes a reboot. Then it takes root, without care for walls and beams it wrests … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, birth, cywyyd llosgyrnoch, death, ideas, poetic forms, rebirth, recycling, Welsh verse forms
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Lay down
Lay down your weary tune; lay down your weary tune. You’ve been singing it for far too long. When others faltered, you still held on strong: never a missed note or phrase gone wrong. Lay down your weary tune. Lay … Continue reading
Epiphany
Brace yourself. Epiphany does not arrive in slow reveal; long years spent over ancient tomes will like as not have no result. The right idea, when it comes, is more like lightning than the storm: a flash that cracks the … Continue reading
Outside the Box
The next idea, the one that rocks, will be born “outside of the box”, beyond the thinker’s comfort zone, where daring, they have gone alone into the dark and scary mists to reap the untold benefits. But once they get … Continue reading
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Tagged change, comfort, genius, ideas, innovation, revolution, status quo, thought
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The Ten Percent Solution
Lobotomy perhaps provides the clues: that with what meager portion of the brain society encourages us to use and education bothers us to train, we think, and therefore are, so far reduced from what potential might be in the whole … Continue reading
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Tagged daily poems, education, experimentation, exploration, genius, ideas, thought
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They grow up fast
They grow up fast; in just a short month’s span the smallest seed becomes a tall, wild stalk grown high enough to look down on a man. But that time does not fly, despite the talk philosophers will write in … Continue reading
How the Brain Lost its Brawn
There was an idea that grew in a brain — not a clean break, but rather a troubling sprain. It swelled up and shut off the centers of speech, thus remaining hidden; and just beyond reach it festered, fermented and … Continue reading
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Tagged education, ideas, laziness, parables, Rudyard Kipling, thoughtlessness
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