Who are you and why are you doing this?

My name is Dale Lyles.  I am a retired educator who has spent his life Making The Thing That Is Not: creating.  I have been the artistic director of a theatre company, a choir director, a website designer, a composer, a painter, a writer, an actor, a dancer, and above all, a teacher.

This website is to promote what I have found to be effective ways to allow yourself to be the creative human that you want to be.  I've written a book — Lichtenbergianism: procrastination as a creative strategy — which is an incredibly handy source of inspiration.  You should buy it.

NOW

April 2024: Finding collaborators for William Blake’s Inn; begin to structure what the steering committee for William Blake’s Inn will do; planning for Every Brilliant Thing; firm up the design for rage against the night. (Hire me.)

Next: William Blake’s Inn; Every Brilliant Thing

Reading: The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails; Fluke, by Brian Klaas; The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, by John Koenig; The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories, translated by Andrea L. Purvis and edited by Robert B. Strassler; Tristram Shandy, by Lawrence Sterne

Watching: Northern Exposure

Listening: electronica recommendations from BandCamp; the Not Recently Played (within the last six months) playlist on my laptop