Creativity and Pig Entrails
The post below is by my friend and fellow blogger Katie Jett Walls, who writes over at One Per Week. We’re both participating in the 2010 Wordcount Blogathon, and today’s assignment was to swap blogs with someone; we chose each other. Awww….
Angling for Guest Blogger of the Year, Katie made rice pudding today in honor of Tastee Pudding
My name is Katie, I’m a Fire Dragon, and I’ve been friends with Amanda since sometime along the way in our mutual flirtation with improvisation. We were briefly neighbors, and we’ve been drunk together on many nights. She gave me marvelous champagne flutes as a wedding gift. She writes, about her blog Tastee Pudding: “In the search for the creative life, the proof is in the pudding.”
I got to wondering how exactly how we came to say this phrase, “the proof is in the pudding” (maybe I only wondered because of fellow blogathon writer Joann Mason, who writes about the origins of English idioms). I sort of know what it means - it means you know a thing is good if it holds up to it’s promise, or if the experience lives up to the expectation.
I thought there might be more than that. (more…)
