About Plato’s Groove

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I’m writing again.  That usually signals danger. 🙂  But sometimes something beautiful emerges.  A new thought or image or direction.  In my experience it seems that creativity at its heart is rooted in a desperate need to bring some kind of order out of chaos.  I attempt to explain more fully in the pages that follow.  Hope you find your groove!

77 thoughts on “About Plato’s Groove”

  13. Coffee doesn’t like me very well. But now and then I sneak down to Starbucks for a raspberry mocha frappucino! Just stopped to pick Bran up. We’ve been car shopping. I think we’ve narrowed things down to a KIA or an Impala. GAWD I hate black, white, red, and silver! And I don’t believe for one minute the reason they told us that’s what all the cars those colors for. See ya later, dude. Hope the fish turns out great!

  15. Hey Plato!

    I’m inviting you to join in the Five Photos, Five Stories Challenge. It’s just another way to get some needed exposure for our blogs. You are my day three person.

    All you need to do is choose one random image each day and write a story about it. You can write fiction, non-fiction or a paragraph or merely a line describing your view behind choosing that image for the day. The picture does not have to be one that you’ve taken. Please include a “thanks” and pingback to my site. And the instructions listed at the bottom of the blog post. (You can look at my blog to see how Clare told me to do it.)

    Then nominate one blogger everyday to keep the challenge going.

    I’ll understand if you’ve got too much on your plate, but wanted to invite you anyway. It’s kind of short and fun.

    Blessings,
    Calen~
    Impromptu Promptlings…

  19. Hey, Groovy, do you have a search box you can put in your sidebar? Like where someone can enter the name of a poem and it goes right to it? There’s one at the top of my page. I was going to search for The Offering and realized you don’t have one so will have to backtrack. You’re getting quite a few hits now. If you have one it might be a good thing to add so folks can find poems more easily. Just a thought.

  20. I liked your saying-am writing again and that signals danger.. 🙂
    In a way, i really want to take this “danger” and see where it can land me 🙂
    Thanks so much for giving me the chance of finding you 🙂
    Stay blessed and keep “writing”
    Rosalyn

  23. You know I feel the same way, I am writing again. trying to stick to it don’t like the feeling of forcing it but I’m trying to establish a routine. So you be groovy and exist boldy

    • I like that. Thank you. Exist boldly. Very cool. 🙂 I am excited because I am going to visit with my middle boy this weekend. We are going to put a couple of these old songs to music. He did the piano improv on the “Plato’s Groove”. Now that my children are grown and getting there I think I shall tell them to exist boldly as they seek their groove.

      • Yes, something my teacher told me in the past. Some writers write because its therapeutic and its just for them. Other writers write because they want to have a voice and be heard. I think the second is me. I just have to take time to figure out what im trying to say sometimes. Yes Live Out Loud & Free…Exist boldly in your groove.

  24. “In my experience it seems that creativity at its heart is rooted in a desperate need to bring some kind of order out of chaos.”

    Boy isn’t THAT the truth. BUT I think some chaos is necessary for creativity. I’ve always loved Nietzsche’s quote: One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Thanks for Playing. Be Groovy!