Edward Abbey: “When the fight begins within himself, a man’s worth something.”
Author: Dan Pouliot
A New Hampshire native, Dan received his BFA in Oil Painting from UNH; his digital works are in multiple permanent collections. Dan’s been a positive psychology student/practitioner, a blogger, an amateur Remote Viewer, and now a novelist. His dual passions for anomalous cognition and positive thinking set the stage for his debut young adult novel, Super Human, published by PortalStar Publishing. Dan describes Super Human as The Karate Kid meets Escape to Witch Mountain.
Throwaway Thoughts
I have a lot of creative friends: writers, designers, artists. They can all attest to one simple fact: we have a lot of ideas that just aren’t that good. This truth is not isolated to creativity. Or rather it is, but our definition of creativity is too limiting. We are creating thoughts all the time.… Continue reading Throwaway Thoughts
The Language of Angels
“Laughter is the language of angels.” – Dante
In Every Problem There Is an Opportunity
The more I look the more I see in things their opposite. Assets are liabilities and vice versa. Pick just about anything and both arguments can be made for the good and the bad of it. So which to pick?Nobody wants problems. I do not want to wish problems on anyone. But problems happen; nobody’s… Continue reading In Every Problem There Is an Opportunity
The Sins of Positive Thinkers
I’m not alone as someone who— in search of spiritual growth— walked away from organized religion. The sermons repeated in my church seemed tired and not terribly relevant to me (though, in fairness, I stopped going at age 16). Words like lord and salvation seemed to be used as givens, above inquiry. I got in to positive… Continue reading The Sins of Positive Thinkers