Celebrate Creativity

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Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - Episode 458 - The Greatest of Them All, Part Two “In Episode 1, we followed Shakespeare from Stratford-upon-Avon to the bustling streets and theatres of London, watching him experiment with history, tragedy, and love. But the story doesn’t stop there. From these early works, Shakespeare climbed higher, perfecting his craft and tackling the deepest...

Send us Fan Mail  The Greatest of Them All - Part 1 Now when I first decided to have a series of podcast episodes dealing with what I believe are the 25 most influential writers, it seemed easiest and most effective to have one episode for each writer. But I soon found that William Shakespeare easily deserved several episodes - so I'm going to devote two episodes to Shakespeare because of his...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - Chaucer -Not Just Paperwork Before Shakespeare, before Austen…even before Milton, there was Jeffrey Chaucer. Boldly writing in English when most of the literary world preferred Latin or French. Imagine that audacity!" Cue pause: 1 second, let the audience absorb “audacity.” “The English language just wasn’t considered worthy of literature, an...

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Send us Fan Mail Today I'd like to talk about a unique individual from the New Testament first known as Saul, and after his conversion, was known as Paul Based on what we know, Paul’s voice and style can best be described as urgent, argumentative, and full of rhetorical questions and paradoxes. Compared to Moses and David, he’s much less about stories and much more about persuasion. Genres he...

Send us Fan Mail “Hello, friends, and welcome to Celebrate Creativity! My name is George Bartley, and today we turn to one of the most influential writers of the ancient world — David, the poet-king. David is certainly famous as a king of Israel, but, as I am sure you most of you know, he is also remembered as a prolific writer of Psalms — songs and poems that explore the full range of human emoti...

Send us Fan Mail “Hello, friends, and welcome to Celebrate Creativity! My name is George Bartley, and today we begin an extraordinary journey into one of the most influential storytellers in human history — Moses. Most listeners know the creation story, but did you know that tradition credits Moses as its author? That’s right — the words ‘In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth’ an...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - My name is George Bartley, and this is Episode 451 - only 49 more episodes to go until this podcast reaches 500 - anyway, What you're hearing is not a full length episode - I'm close to going over my limit. But I want to let you know about an exciting series that will be released September 6 at 12 o'clock midnight EST I'm launc...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity- Episode 450 - Poe’s Words of Hope When you hear the name of the 19th century writer, Edgar Allan Poe, what comes to mind?  Perhaps you picture a somber, extremely unhappy man scribbling tales of madness and murder in a dimly lit room. In this episode, originally written for the voices through time series, we look at a different - even life affirmin...

Send us Fan Mail The final individual in this podcast miniseries about great literary figures who had a form of epilepsy deals with Truman Capote, and while he is listed among famous writers who had epilepsy, there's no indication that he depicted characters with epilepsy or seizures in his fictional works.  As I hope you know by now, writers such as Fyodor Dostoevsky, for example, are known...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity -  Episode 447 - What the Dickens! Today I want to look at Charles Dickens - and no I could not find any reliable information that said Charles Dickens suffered from epilepsy, but his connection to epilepsy and neurology is extremely notable because of his descriptions of some of his characters having epileptic episodes. Again, there is no record of...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - Episode 447 - The Perfect Word Welcome to this podcast episode. Today, get ready to hear more meet a writer who took being a perfectionist to a whole new level - possibly hear about him for the very first time. His name is Gustave Flaubert, and he's not just another author from history—he's a rebel who changed how stories are told foreve...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Episode 445 of Celebrate Creativity - Ultimate Freedom - This is the third and final episode devoted to characters with epilepsy from   the writings of Fydor Dostoyevsky. In addition to Prince Myskin and Smerdyakov, there was another major character who has a relationship with epilepsy called Kirillov from dostoyevsky’s novel by the name of Demons.  You see, Dostoevsky...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity – Episode 444 – A Multitude of Ways In this podcast series, I am delving into authors who had epilepsy. And there is probably no better example than Dostoyevsky. Now it is said that Fydor Dostoevsky's portrayal of epilepsy, especially in his character Prince Myshkin, is one of the most accurate and empathetic in literature largely because it go...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity – Episode 444 - Fate, illness, or Deception? This is the first podcast episode in a three part series dealing with a fascinating individual - the Russian writer Fydor Dostoevsky and his literary treatment of seizure disorders.  His works are rich with recurring themes such as morality, free will, nihilism, faith, and the nature of good and evil. Dos...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - Episode 442  Was He Drunk?  I should hope that after you have listened to the preceding episode, the name of Dr. John Robertson should be familiar to you.  In case it is not, Dr. John Robertson was a neurologist and an avid collector of Poe's works who, in his 1921 study "Edgar A. Poe: A Study," argued that Poe suffered from a form...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity Episode 441 - Did Poe Have Epilepsy? As many of you know, I used to work at the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond Virginia - my favorite room in the entire museum, and one of my favorite places in the entire world, is the Virginia Poe room name for the mother of Edgar Allan Poe.  Now this building contains  an excellent collection of the writers wo...

Send us Fan Mail -Welcome to is Celebrate Creativity for episode 440 Crossing the Symbol -the second part of a look into Lord Byron. Making swimming even more difficult historically and even today it's a vital strategic waterway which means it was and still is a busy maritime passageway   Now if you will excuse me, I wanna take a little aside and delve into the Hellespont - and hopefully in a...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - Episode 439 -  An Uneasy Mind Let me start with an example of my creative - if if that is what you wanna call it - approach to Gemini - I figured out what I wanted to say, my situation, and give Gemini a place to start with. I knew that Gustav Flaubert and Lord Byron lived approximately at the same time, but I was not exactly sure which came first...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - Episode 437 - Epilepsy and Famous Writers Today, Celebrate Creativity is beginning a new series, one that peels back the layers on a topic rarely discussed in   the hallowed halls of literature. We're going to talk about famous writers who lived with epilepsy. Now I did not just randomly choose the topic of creativity and epilepsy. You see, a...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to celebrate creativity - my name is George Bartley and this is episode 437 -  the Second of a two part series - Poe’s Creativity - Part Two Mr. Poe - you know I I'm very curious about your writing - and the effects you attempted to generate - Would you say that you were a stylist? Indeed, Mr. Bartley, I would say that I am a stylist, and in the most deliberate and un...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - my name is George Bartley and this is episode 436 -  the first of a two part series - Poe’s Creativity - Part One First I have a confession to make - her somehow got the last two audio files, their titles, and numbers mixed up - it's very easy to do - I will definitely be sure to do all that I can to be sure that this doesn't happen agai...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to celebrate creativity.  My name is George Bartley, and this is episode 435 - Walt’s Cloak It seems that the best way to get useful information from an ai is by using clear and thorough prompts. In other words, the best way to get an answer that is useful is to spend time thinking how to communicate clearly what you want to say - possibly writing down a list of the questi...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate. Creativity  - This is Episode 434 - A Fierce Undeniable Attraction Walt Whitman’s words about the female form is the subject of the first section of this episode. Section 4   This is the female form, A divine nimbus exhales from it from head to foot, It attracts with fierce undeniable attraction, I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless v...