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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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27:36

Feeding the Rich!

Celebrate Creativity ·

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

Celebrate Creativity ·

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

Celebrate Creativity ·

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

Celebrate Creativity ·

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

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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

Celebrate Creativity ·

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!

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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

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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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28:46

Truman Capote

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2025/08/30

Send us a text The final individual in this podcast miniseries about great literary figures who had a form of epilepsy deals with Truman Capote, and while he is listed among famous writers who had epilepsy, there's no indication that he depicted characters with epilepsy or seizures in his fictional works. As I hope you know by now, writers such as Fyodor Dostoevsky, for example, are known to have integrated their experience with epilepsy into their characters and narratives. However, f...

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28:27

Queen of Crime

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2025/08/28

Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - Episode 448 - Queen of Crime We have talked in this podcast about such great writers as Dostoyevsky and Flaubert, but so far I've left out the most popular writer of them all and that is Agatha Christie. Only the Bible and Shakespeare have sold more copies that Agatha Christie - she is often mentioned alongside great writers who have had epileptic seizures, but her case is a bit more ambiguous than Dostoevsky or Flaubert. In this episod...

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24:25

What the Dickens!

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2025/08/27

Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - Episode 447 - What the Dickens! Today I want to look at Charles Dickens - and no I could not find any reliable information that said Charles Dickens suffered from epilepsy, but his connection to epilepsy and neurology is extremely notable because of his descriptions of some of his characters having epileptic episodes. Again, there is no record of Charles Dickens have any form of epilepsy - at least none that I could find - and I really ...

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20:36

The Perfect Word

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2025/08/26

Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - Episode 447 - The Perfect Word Welcome to this podcast episode. Today, get ready to hear more meet a writer who took being a perfectionist to a whole new level - possibly hear about him for the very first time. His name is Gustave Flaubert, and he's not just another author from history—he's a rebel who changed how stories are told forever. So, why should you care about him? Imagine a writer who spent years on a single book. Gustave Flaubert ...

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21:18

Ultimate Freedom

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/08/25

Send us a text Welcome to Episode 445 of Celebrate Creativity - Ultimate Freedom - This is the third and final episode devoted to characters with epilepsy from the writings of Fydor Dostoyevsky. In addition to Prince Myskin and Smerdyakov, there was another major character who has a relationship with epilepsy called Kirillov from dostoyevsky’s novel by the name of Demons. You see, Dostoevsky never explicitly says Kirillov is epileptic, but there are strong echoes of the conditio...

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23:55

A Multitude of Ways

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/08/24

Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Creativity – Episode 444 – A Multitude of Ways In this podcast series, I am delving into authors who had epilepsy. And there is probably no better example than Dostoyevsky. Now it is said that Fydor Dostoevsky's portrayal of epilepsy, especially in his character Prince Myshkin, is one of the most accurate and empathetic in literature largely because it goes beyond just describing the physical symptoms. He delves into the psychological, social, and spiritua...

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31:10

Fate, Illness, or Deception?

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2025/08/23

Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Creativity – Episode 444 - Fate, illness, or Deception? This is the first podcast episode in a three part series dealing with a fascinating individual - the Russian writer Fydor Dostoevsky and his literary treatment of seizure disorders. His works are rich with recurring themes such as morality, free will, nihilism, faith, and the nature of good and evil. Dostoevsky himself suffered from epilepsy - so it could be argued that his reaction to the cond...

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