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Seven Word Biographies
Gioia-I Am An Artist Paul Holdengräber, who interviews cultural icons through the New York Public Libraries, always asks his guests to provide a 7 word biography. He calls them biographical “haikus” or “tweets”.Here are some wonderful examples he has elicited:
What’s Your “Super Power”?
Rebecca-Yellow Planetary Warrior Rebecca’s sister Jenny loves to liven up dinner parties by asking guests around the table “what is your ‘Super Power’–some quality that others know you for, even if it’s something outrageous and seemingly useless?” Initially, when the
The Art In Scribbling
Jenny Scribble Snake and KC Scribble Face What we “see” objectively can often change very quickly. We recently ran a workshop at Montgomery County Government with Building Site Inspectors. We had made a powerpoint on a simple white slide template
Authentic Pride
Gioia and Rebecca’s Recent Publication Happy Spring–for those of us the East Coast it has finally arrived. Gioia and I wanted to share with you that we have just published our second article about positive psychology and art therapy, a
Luck in the Eye of the Beholder
Rebecca–Rabbits-Card for Annie’s Bday Sometimes when “good” things happen to us we feel like we had have stroke of good luck–we find a hundred dollar bill, we’re running late for an interview but we hit a string of green lights
Love 2.0
Gioia–Love “Love” gets batted around quite a bit during the month of February, for obvious reasons. We thought we would offer a different take on love emerging from research of psychologist Barbara Fredrickson. “Love is not romance. It’s not sexual desire.