Let me tell you a story about my Grandpa Gass
Let me tell you a story about my Grandpa Gass He was really neat. The end of one of his fingers was all twisted up. The fingernail didn't line up with the knuckle...
What is there about Risk?
What is there about risk? What is there about risk and uncertainty that fire the sources of creativity and call upon us to perform our best? There is something ...
Postscript on wild huckleberry ice cream
Two scoops of wild huckleberry ice cream from the 2009 crop, garnished with a sprig of 2010 huckleberries. Photo by Lee Gass. They say too many cooks spoil ...
To Build a Fire
When I read Jack London’s To Build a Fire the first time, a few years before reading it again in high school, I had already made many mistakes in the wilderness. ...
Buzz Holling: Heroes, Masters, and Wizards
Buzz Holling and Trajectory of Resilience. Sculpture and photo by Lee Gass. For my first few years at UBC my small office was across the hall from Buzz Holli...
The Silver Dollar
The Silver Dollar When I was a little boy in Dunsmuir, in the mountains of northern California, both sets of grandparents lived in Medford, less than a hundr...
The Saw Filer Guy: Heroes, Masters, and Wizards
During my PhD studies at Oregon I became obsessed with how people get good at what they do. I guess that’s not a surprise given what I was trying to do for ...
More Thoughts on Creativity
Wild huckleberries on a bush outside my studio. In a story about a nest of robins in my outdoor sculpting studio, The Deep Meaning of Creativity, I sugges...