Stop Thinking Straight.
For those of us who don’t solve problems in a linear way and don’t live a straight-line existence, Follow the Meander unleashes your spontaneous, squiggly skill set for creative success. For those who haven’t yet embraced their inner meander, this book is an energizing boost in the right (indirect) direction.
Go Forth and Meander.
Meet Your Meandering Mentors
Fuller
R. Buckminster Fuller has been called the Leonardo da Vinci of the 20th Century. He was a BIG lateral thinker and his inventions and ideas - like the Geodesic Dome -changed the world.
Keats
Jonathon Keats copyrighted his brain, claiming he built it himself - neural network by neural network. He’s a provocateur, writer, experimental philosopher and conceptual artist.
Elliston
Taiun Michael Elliston Roshi is one of America’s senior-most Zen masters. He’s also profoundly creative - writer, designer, musician, craftsman and artist who “paints without a painter.”
Plus, More Meanderers
Also…Anni Albers, Joseph Albers, Ruth Asawa, John Cage, Teddy Roosevelt, Soyu Matsuoka Roshi, D.T. Suzuki, Paul Klee, Marcel Duchamp, Isamu Noguchi, Pogo Possum, Ken Issacs, Mel Brooks, Groucho Marx, Capability Brown, Thornton Dial, Lonnie Holley, Frederick the Great of Prussia, Alfred North Whitehead, Graham Wallas, Edward de Bono, Copernicus, Albert Einstein, Kurt Vonnegut, Natalie Goldberg, Brian Eno, Henry David Thoreau, Wynton Marsalis, Cornel West, Muhammad Ali…and more.
Meander Places
Berlin to Chicago
After Nazis closed the famed Bauhaus design school in Berlin, Laszlo Moholoy-Nagy opened The New Bauhaus in Chicago. Now IIT Institute of Design, it was home to teachers like Bucky Fuller and Michael Elliston.
Black Mountain to Asheville
The center of avant-garde creativity in 20th Century America was, arguably, Black Mountain College outside Asheville, NC. The only defunct college with its own major museum, the place still exerts strong influence.
Atlanta to Anchorage
The Atlanta Soto Zen Center and The Original House of Pancakes nearby, were the origins for Follow the Meander and the site of many discussions and discoveries featured in the book.