Two Adjectives for a Hell of a Film.

The ferocious John Hawkes and the luminous Elizabeth Olsen give Oscar-worthy performances in this American horror story with a pitch-perfect script.

 http://www.foxsearchlight.com/marthamarcymaymarlene/

Gotta a "Great American?"

November is National Novel Writing Month, so get your write on with tips:  
http://www.nanowrimo.org/

Timing is Everything. (But so is Experience)

Joe Klein writes about the need for experience. 

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2096292,00.html

Way Opening and Way Closing.

This has been an exhausting month.

After moving across country, Iv'e become a renter after nearly two decades of home ownership in a hot market wildly skewed toward landlords (many tenants are the foreclosed, driving up demand for nice homes in great neighborhoods).

I just signed a lease on a wonderful place (though I paid more than the asking price) and I am finalizing the details for the big move.

Throughout this process, when my faith faltered, I tried to think about door closing and windows opening.

Parker J. Palmer writes in the book Let Your Life Speak:  Listening for the Voice of Vocation, that we must "take the no of the way that closes and find the guidance it has to offer, and take the yes of the way that opens and respond with the yes of our lives."

Mid-Week Words With Impact.

Incorrigible
Audacious
Propulsive
Uptick
Mercurial
Dispense
Grotty

Creative Destruction.

When market forces upend the traditional order, economists call it "creative destruction."

In the simplest terms, destruction proceeds creation.  New replaces old.

As marketers, we instinctly understand this theory.  Though it's tempting to hide, it's actually a time to act.

Courage, not cowardice.  That's what ushers in creativity.

Shake It Outta My Sleeve.

That's what legnedary architect Frank Lloyd Wright said when his design came easily.

I had that experience today.  And it was glorious.

I doon't usually write in the early morning, but today, up hours before I normally rise, I just sat down.  And got to it.

Fueled by several cups of Earl Grey tea, I buzzed through several pages of web content that had been stalled.

Sometimes shaking it out of your sleeve might be a matter of shaking up your routine.