Creativity Archives — R. L. Solberg

A Party for a Book

We threw a party for a book, and boy was it fun. My first book, Torahism: Are Christians Required to Keep the Law of Moses? was released on Williamson College Press on November 5, 2019. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but it turned out to be a wonderful evening at Williamson College in Franklin, […]

R. L. Solberg 4 years agoNovember 21, 2020

Book Reviews Creativity Music & Art

A Literary Experiment: On Lewis

The subject of this experiment in literary criticism is the following books by C.S. Lewis; The Screwtape Letters, (Lewis, 1942), The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, (Lewis, 1950), Mere Christianity, (Lewis, 1952), and Till We Have Faces, (Lewis, 1956). My goal was to discover if, by using Lewis’ methods of literary criticism I could […]

R. L. Solberg 5 years agoNovember 21, 2020

Creativity Music & Art

Take Five, People

Since I was a teenager, I’ve been a fan of Dave Brubeck. Back then, as a young drummer and guitarist, I was going through a phase where I was really into progressive, technical music. I loved Rush, Dixie Dreggs, Kansas, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Stravinsky, etc. And the power metal band I formed a little later on […]

R. L. Solberg 5 years agoOctober 19, 2019

Creativity Culture Philosophy

Sailing to Byzantium

I only recently read this poem for the first time, and something about it really resonated with me. Such a noble sentiment, infused with agony and yearning. Yeats, an Irishman, wrote this poem in 1926 at the age of 61. Of it, he said: “I am trying to write about the state of my soul, […]

R. L. Solberg 6 years agoNovember 21, 2020

Creativity

Waiting on Jonah

A short story. “So full of artless jealousy is guilt, it spills itself in fearing to be spilt.” The words, spoken in a bold, mellifluous voice, echoed off the concrete ceiling overhead. Beneath the freeway overpass, two men stood side by side, staring into the rain. A long silence passed between them. The older man sighed […]

R. L. Solberg 6 years agoOctober 6, 2019

Creativity Personal Philosophy

My Junkyard

I have generated a rather big junkyard over the course of my life. It’s something I started on back in the early 1980’s and have been adding to ever since. My impressive scrapheap now covers many square miles and is packed with rusted-out vehicles that have all reached the end of their lives. Some are […]

R. L. Solberg 6 years agoNovember 21, 2020

Creativity Music & Art Personal

The Year in Between

What happened between the making of these two videos? A little over a year ago I was hired as a UX Designer by a healthcare company that had just merged with another company. They were having a big “Are You Ready?” promotional campaign for the unveiling of the new company name and held a contest […]

R. L. Solberg 8 years agoNovember 21, 2020

Creativity Music & Art

Heart In A Cage

My wife Deb and I had (or maybe still have) a little band called Dust & Daisies. We’ve done a lot of different things, and played a lot of different places, and we’re kind of on hiatus right now. This is one of my favorite songs of ours. Heart In A Cage You’ve got my […]

R. L. Solberg 8 years ago

Creativity Music & Art

Midnight

Apparently, I’m now one of those old guys who like to putter around in the garage on Saturdays, not really doing much, just enjoying the day and following my fancy where it leads. Except in my case, I don’t tinker around with tools in the garage. Instead, I head to my little home studio I call The Lab, where I […]

R. L. Solberg 8 years ago

Creativity Music & Art Personal

On Playing To Play

I wrote some simple piano chord diagrams for my daughter Maggie and she spent three hours playing the piano yesterday. She’s a natural. She inspired me to want to play just for the enjoyment of playing. The thing I love about music is you don’t even have to be very good to get lost in it. […]

R. L. Solberg 8 years agoNovember 21, 2020