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FOCUS ON THE CREATIVE

I was born two hundred metres away from São Jorge da Mina, the first slave castle built in tropical Africa. My grandmother had a pub where wayfarers, fishermen, their wives, officers and anybody who had trouble or was looking for a little happiness would come, buy tots of the local gin, “akpeteshie” and start pouring their souls out. I would crawl under tables, eaves dropping and soaking it all in. When I got bored listening to them, I’d run to the beach, sleep in a docked ca

Liberian peace activist, trained social worker, and women’s rights advocate, Leymah Gbowee, shares her profound insight on the value and cost of paying attention. She reflects on how important it is to stay focused in an age where technological advances have transformed the allure of the neighborhood playground into the crowded, busy and obssessive virtual world. We share a space where having access to a camera makes the difference in being present in a moment or living only

Members of the Radical Brownies, a new girls group out of Oakland, Calif., and loosely based on the community-oriented principles of the Black Panthers. -FACEBOOK According to the KPIX news station, Radical Brownies was started earlier this year by Marilyn Hollinquest and her friend Anayvette Martinez after Martinez's daughter, Coatlupe, told her she wanted to join a girls group. "How amazing would it be to have a girls' troop that was really focused around social justice an

We must learn to care. Our creative muse is counting on us. We need companionship and collaborative efforts to affect change. Anne Lamott writes: "As we live, we begin to discover what helps in life and what hurts, and our characters act this out dramatically. This is moral material. … A moral position is a passionate caring inside you. We are all in danger now and have a new everything to face, and there is no point gathering an audience and demanding its attention unless

John A. Baker, Jr. better known as Spoken Reasons, is one of the biggest internet celebrities. He is a comedian, actor, producer, and poet from Bradenton, Florida. The 26-year-old has a net worth of around $800,000. Focus On The Creative Power To The People: Control The Images I've been a writer most of my life and an avid facebook user for about seven years. Throughout the time I've registered with Facebook, it's been consistently important to me that I am able to expres

Why is focus so important to the realization and implementation of creative potential? It's when I paint that I am most aware of how projecting attention brings my visions to life. The more I concentrate the greater the realization of the work in progress. Taking into account that energy is neither created nor destroyed, the images we see around us are transformations of the mental impressions we inherit from our ancestors. When I paint, it's my goal to maintain a spiritual