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		<title>Today&#8230;the first day of the rest of your life!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Is America throwing out ingenuity?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is creativity decreasing in children under 12 in the last 20 years. What can we do about it?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethvendryeswilliams.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1741596&amp;post=1471&amp;subd=bethvendryeswilliams&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flap your arms&#8230;jump around a lot!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Look, I don&#8217;t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you&#8217;re alive you&#8217;ve got to flap your arms and leg, you&#8217;ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at least think noisy and colorfully, or you&#8217;re not alive.&#8221; Mel Brooks (1926-       ) American [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethvendryeswilliams.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1741596&amp;post=1447&amp;subd=bethvendryeswilliams&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No time to be creative?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 01:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If only I had enough time. Do you ever find yourself saying that to yourself? That is what I said when the three boys were little, and part of me didn’t want that time to end. I painted pictures with them in between making Halloween costumes and cookies, parties and putting bandaids on knees. We [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethvendryeswilliams.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1741596&amp;post=1443&amp;subd=bethvendryeswilliams&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life happens&#8230; what about those plans?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being creative in life and art requires balance,inspiration and some down time  The reward is transformation of our thoughts, sprits and bodies. Have you found that to be true for you?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethvendryeswilliams.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1741596&amp;post=1414&amp;subd=bethvendryeswilliams&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 01:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It&#8217;s about making the best kind of image I can make, it&#8217;s about talking as clearly as I can. Jim Dine Filed under: communication, creating, creativity, creativity techniques, drawing, imaging, perception, talking Tagged: Jim Dine<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethvendryeswilliams.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1741596&amp;post=1402&amp;subd=bethvendryeswilliams&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking tool 2: Create an image in your mind, then go!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 00:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Expanding the power of visual images is thrilling to me. Imagine, just holding an image in your mind&#8217;s eye is the way to solve a problem, create a new situation or invent something new! Do you find it difficult to believe that visualizing something is the beginning of making it real? Are you tempted to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethvendryeswilliams.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1741596&amp;post=1393&amp;subd=bethvendryeswilliams&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Allow sleep to transform you!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 01:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>How to increase your observation skill in 6 steps</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 04:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I know I am not the only one whose thoughts are someplace else while I am doing a task. Isn&#8217;t multitasking how to  get more things done? I sit down to draw the landscape as we drove through the farmland upstate New York, from memory!  I try to recall all of the details of the look [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethvendryeswilliams.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1741596&amp;post=1347&amp;subd=bethvendryeswilliams&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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