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Category Archives: The Mondays
Monday #39: The Power of Art Compels You
Last Friday, on one of those beautiful sunny, city days, I visited the Philadelphia Museum of Art where the featured show, “Great and Mighty Things,” was a collection of “Outsider Art”– art created by individuals who are not traditionally schooled in … Continue reading
Posted in The Mondays
Tagged art, Creativity, dar hosta, dar hosta james, darhosta, Outsider art, Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Monday #38: Get Your Wabi Sabi On
Imperfect, impermanent and incomplete. That’s wabi-sabi in a nutshell. What began as a Japanese notion that was a more austere and melancholy view of the flawed natural and inanimate world, evolved over thousands of years and, under the influence of … Continue reading
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Tagged Creativity, dar hosta, dar hosta james, darhosta, happiness, Health, healthy living, Impermanence, Japan, learning, Philosophy, Wabi-sabi
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Monday #37: I Get To
One of the things I do as an artist is participate in street festivals and, because it’s springtime, I’ve had a few gigs over the past couple of weeks. Setting up for one of these events takes a lot of … Continue reading
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Tagged dar hosta, art, darhosta, happiness, healthy living, gratitude, Creativity, pessimism, dar hosta james, Is the glass half empty or half full?
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Monday #35: Get Lucky
Sometime last fall I started finding pennies. I know we all occasionally find pennies but I started finding them often. The first one that began my penny finding stint was in a parking lot outside the bank. When I got back … Continue reading
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Tagged dar hosta, dar hosta james, darhosta, happiness, imagination, luck, lucky penny, North Pole, Santa Claus
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Monday #34: Get Out Of The Loop
I’ve been thinking a lot about the power of questions lately. Last year, I wrote a post about how much our brain likes questions and how they can help us get into more creative, higher level thinking if we let them. … Continue reading


