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Creativity comes through individuals but no one successfully creates alone. It is mysterious only to outsiders who can't see how it is done and mystify it further by calling it genius. No one has it all life through; their creativity takes off when they find their distinctive technique and their niche in the world of rivals, audiences, and downstream followers. And one learns it by getting deep inside a network of intellectual and artistic life, recombining and flipping techniques to produce something resoundingly new. Creativity via Sociology shows how they do it.

Wednesday, September 11, 2024

9/11 MEMORIAL NAMES

The 9/11 memorial

 

double cauldron

downward fountain

all-sided waterfall

into a pool and disappearing

down a central abyss.

 

around the rim,

three thousand names.

 

I circle the wall, slowly scanning:

Joe Sullivan, Tom O'Donnell,

O'Keefe, Kirwan, McConnell,

Collins and Randall,

they are all here:

the names of my youth,

drinking buddies and friends,

even my own.

 

sadder than the Island of the Dead

dark cypresses, black water,

a cleft in the rock.

 

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