Today we learned about Dan Emmett and the first minstrel show, the Snowden family, and the disputed authorship of “Dixie” along with other tunes (I found the “Genuine Negro Jig” to be very enrapturing). And O’Malley claimed that creativity demands limits; people do they’re best work when they’re given freedom to color within the lines, so to speak. I completely agree with him. I do my best when I’m asked about a specific thing, or asked to do a specific thing, and being required to think of something very broad or out of the blue.