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Celebrate Creativity

This podcast is a deep dive into the world of creativity - from Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman to understanding the use of basic AI principles in a fun and practical way.

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27:44

Tolstoy Unveiled

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/09/23

Send us a text Leo Tolstoy is Russia’s other literary giant — a master of epic storytelling, moral inquiry, and psychological insight. His genius lies in observing the human soul with relentless curiosity, asking the questions every creative mind wrestles with: How do we live well? How do we understand ourselves and others? In Tolstoy, as in Dostoyevsky, we see that the tension between human desire, conscience, and society fuels some of the most enduring art ever written." "Imagine a man who...

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28:33

Facing the Firing Squad

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/09/22

Send us a text In the previous episode, we walked with Walt Whitman down the open roads of America, hearing the chorus of ordinary lives. Now we cross continents and step into the narrow corridors of the human soul with Fedor Dostoevsky—where freedom and conscience wrestle in shadows. Whitman’s poetry celebrated the sweep of America, the chorus of countless lives, and the boundless possibilities of freedom. Across the ocean and slightly later in time, Dostoevsky turned his gaze inward, explor...

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28:08

Leaves of Freedom

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2025/09/21

Send us a text Walt Whitman’s writing helped to capture and define the spirit of the growing United States during the challenging 1800s. He had a bold and unusual way of writing that created a new artistic style for America. Whitman's importance comes from three big changes that he led: a new way of writing poetry, a new way of thinking about democracy, and a new influence on American art. Whitman called himself "an American, one of the roughs, a Kosmos,” and he carefully c...

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26:09

The Quiet Radical

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2025/09/20

Send us a text Within the past few days, this podcast has dealt with Victor Hugo, Jonathan Swift, and Edgar Allan Poe - all these individuals were giants who challenged the status quo, but in vastly different ways. Today I would like to add Henry David Thoreau to the mix for a hopefully a compelling contrast. He's often misunderstood, just like Poe, but his rebellion was one of quiet solitude rather than gothic excess or satirical fury. Now when you think of a revolutionary, what comes to mi...

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32:16

Les Miserables

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/09/19

Send us a text First you might ask - why should I read Victor Hugo. Well I'm glad you asked. You see, Reading Victor Hugo is an immersive and profound experience. But before we deal into Les Miserables, I want to say a little bit about his earlier novels. You see, before his masterwork Les Misérables (1862), Victor Hugo wrote several other significant works, including novels, plays, and poetry. Two of his most important earlier novels are The Last Day of a Condemned Man (18...

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31:12

Storytelling for Social Change

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2025/09/18

Send us a text I can't believe it, but we are halfway through the list of writers. I have at least 13 of the 25 writers on the list finished - and today is Charles Dickens. Now, Charles Dickens was a brilliant storyteller, a powerful voice for social justice, and a master of crafting unforgettable characters. You could say that Charles Dickens was The Voice of the Common Person. Dickens used his novels to expose the harsh realities of Victorian England, particularly for the poor and ...

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25:36

Echoes Through the Lakes

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2025/09/17

Send us a text Imagine this: William Wordsworth, in the early 1800s, walking the hills of England’s Lake District. He stops to watch a field of daffodils swaying in the breeze, and suddenly, the moment becomes eternal. For Wordsworth, nature is not just scenery — it is a teacher, a healer, even a kind of companion. The world outside reflects the life within. And it’s reflective moments like these that remind us: literature is never written in isolation… it’s a conversation that stretche...

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27:36

Feeding the Rich!

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2025/09/16

Send us a text What if I told you one of the most famous writers in history calmly suggested… eating babies? Here's the situation: You’re sitting down with a brand-new pamphlet in Dublin, 1729. The author, Jonathan Swift, is proposing a solution to poverty in Ireland. And here’s the solution: the Irish poor should sell their babies as food to the wealthy. Yes, you heard that right. Children — on the dinner plate. Swift wrote, “I grant this food will be somewhat dear, and therefore ve...

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29:59

Spy with a Pen

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2025/09/15

Send us a text Now, Daniel Defoe, the author of Robinson Crusoe, was a prolific and multi-talented English writer, journalist, and spy, whose life was as adventurous as his most famous characters. Born Daniel Foe around 1660 in London to a family of Dissenters (Protestants who did not conform to the Church of England), he later added the aristocratic-sounding "De" to his name. Defoe's early career was far from literary. He was a merchant, dealing in a wide range of goods from hosiery to wine...

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26:34

Darkness Visible

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/09/14

Send us a text "Darkness visible — a phrase that captures the paradox of John Milton’s life: eventual blindness in body, yet vision without bounds in the mind.” "Imagine a world gone dark — yet in that darkness, a man named John Milton could see more clearly than anyone else." John Milton grew up with privilege, expectation, and a mind hungry for knowledge. His father, a scrivener, provided tutors, music lessons, and an education that would prepare him for greatness. From an early age, Milt...

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31:37

Death Be Not Proud

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2025/09/13

Send us a text Well here no I don't wanna do this I don't wanna do this because when I start doing stuff like this screw up so I'm just showing you I've got a belt a few hundred more to hit how are your running since you changed your topic much much higher there's no comparison Support the show Thank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.

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26:27

Greatest of Them All - Part 2

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2025/09/12

Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - Episode 458 - The Greatest of Them All, Part Two “In Episode 1, we followed Shakespeare from Stratford-upon-Avon to the bustling streets and theatres of London, watching him experiment with history, tragedy, and love. But the story doesn’t stop there. From these early works, Shakespeare climbed higher, perfecting his craft and tackling the deepest questions of humanity. Take Hamlet, for instance. Here is a prince torn between revenge, moralit...

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25:49

Greatest of Them All - Part 1

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2025/09/11

Send us a text The Greatest of Them All - Part 1 Now when I first decided to have a series of podcast episodes dealing with what I believe are the 25 most influential writers, it seemed easiest and most effective to have one episode for each writer. But I soon found that William Shakespeare easily deserved several episodes - so I'm going to devote two episodes to Shakespeare because of his importance to the English language and creativity -still fully realizing that's not enough. Anywa...

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21:21

Chaucer - Not Just Paperwork

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2025/09/10

Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - Chaucer -Not Just Paperwork Before Shakespeare, before Austen…even before Milton, there was Jeffrey Chaucer. Boldly writing in English when most of the literary world preferred Latin or French. Imagine that audacity!" Cue pause: 1 second, let the audience absorb “audacity.” “The English language just wasn’t considered worthy of literature, and here was, Jeffrey Chaucer giving the English language - life, color, and humor.” Fireflies h...

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28:54

Architect of the Afterlife

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2025/09/09

Send us a text Support the show Thank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.

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25:11

Conversion, Contradiction, and Creativity

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2025/09/08

Send us a text Today I'd like to talk about a unique individual from the New Testament first known as Saul, and after his conversion, was known as Paul Based on what we know, Paul’s voice and style can best be described as urgent, argumentative, and full of rhetorical questions and paradoxes. Compared to Moses and David, he’s much less about stories and much more about persuasion. Genres he influenced: his letters basically create Christian epistolary literature, setting a pattern that has ...

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22:18

David - The Poet King

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2025/09/07

Send us a text “Hello, friends, and welcome to Celebrate Creativity! My name is George Bartley, and today we turn to one of the most influential writers of the ancient world — David, the poet-king. David is certainly famous as a king of Israel, but, as I am sure you most of you know, he is also remembered as a prolific writer of Psalms — songs and poems that explore the full range of human emotion and our relationship with the divine. Unlike Moses, whose writings often focus on law and histo...

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25:27

Moses the Writer

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2025/09/06

Send us a text “Hello, friends, and welcome to Celebrate Creativity! My name is George Bartley, and today we begin an extraordinary journey into one of the most influential storytellers in human history — Moses. Most listeners know the creation story, but did you know that tradition credits Moses as its author? That’s right — the words ‘In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth’ and all that follows in Genesis are part of what Moses transmitted to the world. Before we go any fu...

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13:53

My First Promo!

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/09/04

Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - My name is George Bartley, and this is Episode 451 - only 49 more episodes to go until this podcast reaches 500 - anyway, What you're hearing is not a full length episode - I'm close to going over my limit. But I want to let you know about an exciting series that will be released September 6 at 12 o'clock midnight EST I'm launching a new series called "Voices Through Time," where I will explore the lives and works of some of the most influent...

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28:37

Poe’s Words of Hope

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/09/04

Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Creativity- Episode 450 - Poe’s Words of Hope When you hear the name of the 19th century writer, Edgar Allan Poe, what comes to mind? Perhaps you picture a somber, extremely unhappy man scribbling tales of madness and murder in a dimly lit room. In this episode, originally written for the voices through time series, we look at a different - even life affirming aspect of Poe. Support the show Thank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.

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