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Taking Stock and Looking Ahead
Are you ready for 2023? I’m a firm believer in constant renewal, be that daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly resets. That is, after all, what New Year’s Resolutions are: a reset. A chance to start a new habit or break an old on. But it is a good idea to plan ahead and be ready for your start date, and that’s where it’s good to review the current year. I actually started the process this week at my office during my lunch hours. I found an empty conference room with a large white board and started taking stock of 2022 in terms of my writing. I made various lists including…
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The Gospel of Creativity with Kevin Smith
I went to “church” on Wednesday night and the preacher was Kevin Smith. Some of you will probably stop reading right now. Kevin Smith? The independent director of films like “Clerks,” “Chasing Amy,” and “Jersey Girl”? The guy who has a few dozen podcasts and fills them with talk of film and comics and humor all laced with profanities? Yup, that’s the one. I’m unique in the world of Kevin Smith fandom. I’ve never seen any of his films. I know him as a podcast personality. Three years ago, while listening to the podcast from SF Signal, there was mention of “…a Batman podcast by filmmaker Kevin Smith where he…