Bad days suck, and it is often comforting to talk to a friend about your situation. Unfortunately, the place you work is often not a place where you will find such a friend. No matter how much you want it to be.

This is my first day back. Actually, at this point, I am just sitting at my desk at home preparing for this site to come back in a couple of weeks.

It was a few months ago that I stopped publishing new articles on icebluebanana.com and it has been a bit difficult for me to stay away.

I did not post here, I did not comment on any blogs (well, I did once or twice), and I barely used Twitter at all (which was the hardest part).

But, I stayed away for a reason.

You may not be able to tell right now, but I am not here. That is, I am not where I usually am when I write. Really, I won’t be here again for another couple of days. Jobs are sometimes quite demanding.

Anyway, I was going to write another post about goal setting, how to reduce stress, and productivity today but I got to thinking about a couple of people I met here (on the web) and that got me thinking about their writing. So I went looking around to see if they still inspire me.

As I write this I am sitting on the bus riding closer and closer to home. My computer is in a bag on my lap and my suit jacket is smashed on top, under the weight of my barely movable arms. My tie has been loosened so that I can breathe a little easier but I am still just as aware of it as I was during the meeting that caused me to leave work a little early today.

How do you solve problems?

Every day millions of people all over the world create love. I believe this to be true. Creating love is done by a person in a way that is not really all that different from the way that they would create trust, which is done in a similar way to how they would create a painting or a poem or a piece of music.

Creativity, in my estimation, is the ability to make decisions which allow you to make something new; something that communicates an idea or a feeling. Creativity allows you to invent something from whatever materials you choose. The materials you have and choose to use are also results of decisions that you have made.

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