Terry Tempest Williams in Orion Magazine

http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/5931

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Creativity and Kids

The Creativity Crisis

by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman

July 10, 2010

For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining. What went  wrong—and how we can fix it.

Here’s a glimpse of the article:

“Researchers say creativity should be taken out of the art room and put into homeroom. The argument that we can’t teach creativity because kids already have too much to learn is a false trade-off. Creativity isn’t about freedom from concrete facts. Rather, fact-finding and deep research are vital stages in the creative process. Scholars argue that current curriculum standards can still be met, if taught in a different way.”

Click here for the whole article.

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Powdered Dancers–Colorado River

Powdered Dancers in "Tandem " position

The male attaches to the female using the claspers at the end of his abdomen. He stands watch while she deposits her eggs in the slow water of the eddy. Should she be threatened by a predator, he will fly off with her.

Powdered Dancers (Argia moesta) are members of the family Conenagrionidae (pond damsels) and are fairly common in the Southwest U.S.

I took this photo submerged in deep mud and brown water from recent flash floods in a eddy 15 miles upstream on the Colorado River from Moab Utah.

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Not a poem but this week’s dragonflies

My new hobby: identification of local dragonflies:

Canyon Rubyspot

Sooty, Powdered (male/female)

and Blue Fronted dancers

Blue Ringed dancer

Flame Skimmer, Eight-spotted Skimmer.

Widow Skimmer.

Black saddlebags

Striped meadowhawk.

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