(blog entry on living imaginatively, richly and deeply, Prospero-ly: cultivating, enhancing, and facilitating life and personal possibilities; minimizing chaos, manipulations, and madness, particularly of others)
…was to pour whatever genius, talent, or inner gifts into daily life and its choices. He would evoke creative, expressive, and artful choices into being, often in conjunction with Nature and whatever civilized value or sensibilities. The trick was to manage and develop his life his own way in whatever way he freely chose, to maximize that precious freedom uniquely. “To thine own self be true.” All else would follow or take care of itself…