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Carolyn Smagalski
Creative Imagination
Founder - Editor - Host
Action, continuous directed action, is the medium through
which miracles come to life. The more you take action, the
greater your magnetism and your ability to attract the
creative genius of other minds. "We cannot live for ourselves
alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible
threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run
as causes and return to us as results," wrote Herman Melville.
 Look
at North Beach, San Francisco, 1965. The beat. A Bohemian
atmosphere, made up of a community of contrasts, all
co-existing as an amorphous society with no stylistic agenda.
The people, distinctly individual in aesthetic sensibility,
subject matter and personal interests - a community of
support, and at the same time, one that retained
individuality.
My mother told me this was a society of deadbeats, where no
one worked, where they did as they pleased.
And yet, genius came from this mosaic!
The likes of Bob Dylan, songwriter and musician; Michael
McClure, artist and songwriter; and Allen Ginsberg,
contemporary poet; Lawrence Ferlinghetti, artist and
owner/publisher of City Lights Bookstore, the first softcover
bookstore in the United States; Francis Crick, co-discoverer
of DNA; Robert LaVigne, artist; Russ Tamblyn, actor, singer,
dancer (West Side Story); Fritz Maytag, steadfast icon of
Anchor Brewing Company; Robbie Robertson, musician...Pretty
impressive.
Sandra Day O' Connor said, "We don't accomplish anything in
this world alone ... and whatever happens is the result of the
whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of
individual threads from one to another that creates
something." When we respect the individual talents of one
another, without forcing our opinion or exhibiting control
over another's actions, we tap into the marvelous genius that
naturally exists, ready to manifest itself at the right
moment.
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going
to be a butterfly," wrote Buckminster Fuller.
Create habits that offer support to those around you - support
that allows the greatness within your associates to grow. You
will see it reflecting back to yourself in a thousand
different ways, and you will be better equipped to give the
world your genius.
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