Beowulf

Beowulf: A Translation And Commentary (Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014)

I received this in the mail last week.  I’m really looking forward to digging into it, since I’m such a huge Tolkien fan.  If you love the classic literature, and Tolkien, you need to get a copy of this and read it.  It’s brand new, just released last week.  I’m taking it with me on my trip to Oklahoma. Hopefully, I’ll be able to spend some time in it while there.

Creativity is the joy of not knowing it all. The joy of not knowing it all refers to the realization that we seldom if ever have all the answers; we always have the ability to generate more solutions to just about any problem. Being creative is being able to see or imagine a great deal of opportunity to life’s problems. Creativity is having options.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.

Charlie Brower