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Cheryl Merrill on Finding Creativity Among the Elephants and Nature

Cheryl Merrill on Finding Creativity Among the Elephants and Nature

Update: 2015-03-03

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We'll talk with writer Cheryl Merrill about her applied creativity work documenting elephants in Africa, as well as her forthcoming book, Larger than Life, Living in the Shadows of Elephants. Find out what elephants have to teach us about creativity, learning, writing ... and being human.

Cheryl writes about her experience with elephants: "Together. Inhabiting the earth. Lives enlarged."

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Cheryl Merrill on Finding Creativity Among the Elephants and Nature

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