Tag : Greece

Life lessons from a child musician in Rhodes, Greece

The young boy was sitting completely alone just outside of the ancient Byzantine walls of Rhodes, Greece. Setting up shop on an uneven scrap of torn cardboard, waiting for an audience amidst forgotten pieces of plastic garbage.

Whirling away the anger in Rhodes, Greece

The Old Town of Rhodes, Greece is the oldest inhabited medieval town in Europe. After entering through one of the seven gates into the Byzantine walled city, it’s as if you’re exploring a disorienting labyrinth buzzing with frenzied activity.

Freshly Cleaned Laundry in Venice, Italy - Eric Taubert

The Exquisite Hindrance: What does it mean to be born creative?

To be born creative, is to enter life inextricably conjoined with an exquisite hindrance. We emerge into our lives governed by powerful innate urges; the insistent curiousity to experience new things; the exhausting swoon of constantly witnessing beauty in places others may not see it; an irrefusable necessity to obsessively *convey* through brush strokes, words, images, forms, or dance.