Category Archives: Creativity

Changing Hats

Posted on June 2, 2023 by Katherine J. Scott

June 1, 2023. A beginning The librarian hat is put away. The creative hat is found, squashed, dust-covered, shoved behind the storage bin in the back corner of the highest shelf. Forgotten. Abandoned. Yet waiting, patiently, without despair. It will … Continue reading →

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Words

Posted on March 19, 2021 by Katherine J. Scott

I want to inhale words like a vacuum cleanerSweeping and churning them upBlow them back out with a leaf blowerScattering words like dust motes I want to taste words, find the undertonesHints of cherry blossom and cloveStir them together in … Continue reading →

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Poem

Posted on February 10, 2021 by Katherine J. Scott

The end of the line When the thoughts comeRushing, running down the lineSynapses firing at the finale of the fireworksDo you get up? Leave the warmth and security of the bedTo catch the waveThat even now is crashing on the … Continue reading →

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Thank you, Amanda Gorman

Posted on January 22, 2021 by Katherine J. Scott

For reminding us that words matter.  For showing us the value of eloquence and imagery, for bringing poetry back to the forefront of America again.  Thank you. For helping us open a new era, led by a President who quotes … Continue reading →

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Creativity in the time of Covid

Posted on May 1, 2020 by Katherine J. Scott

If you will give yourself to study, you will easy every burden of life, you will neither wish for night to come or for the light to fail; neither shall you be worried or preoccupied with other things. Seneca During … Continue reading →

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