It's Always in Motion
A year back in the Bluegrass, what I've been doing instead of a career, and where Creative Recess goes next.
Story
Story, art, and aesthetic expression as ways of knowing, not decoration. Manifestemoir lives here: manifesto plus memoir plus arts-based research. Particular enough to be real. Open enough to be yours.
The Licking River
Falmouth, Kentucky, was originally called Forks of Licking. On March 1, 1997, the river rose 50 feet and took the town. A Kentucky State Police trooper flew over by helicopter and said, 'There is no Falmouth.’ It was days before my ninth birthday.
PLAY at Creative Recess
PLAY is not a break from seriousness — it is how we practice seriousness without becoming brittle. At Creative Recess, PLAY names an orientation to leadership, creativity, and lived experience: Possibility in Leadership, Art, and You.
Manifestemoir
The living method behind Creative Recess: story provides structure, art provides motion, and rigor never has to part ways with resonance.
December Solstice: Tilting Back Toward the Sun
On the winter solstice — after seven winters in Iowa and a cold return to Northern Kentucky — this is a reflection on rebuilding, play, and Creative Recess as a commons for imagination and care. Nothing suddenly resolves, but the direction changes.
My Second Soberversary: The Art of Beginning Again (Creative Recess 2.0 Begins)
Today is my soberversary — a quiet threshold, a return to myself, and the beginning of Creative Recess 2.0. Sobriety didn’t just pull me out of old patterns; it restored my imagination. This is Day One of something new — and something wickedly wonderful begins this Tuesday.