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What does it mean to craft a container for my work?
An invitation to reflect on how your work is held and cherished I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to make a container for your creative work. What does it mean to contain, without restricting? This is the first but almost certainly not the last time I’ll be noodling on that here, and…
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Embracing messy humanity is the answer
Your creative spark and critical thinking are precious and worth protecting, especially now I opened up enrollment for my next round of Bloom this week (more below if you’re interested) and it gave me a chance to make updates to the agreements I ask everyone to acknowledge in my group spaces. Many of these agreements…
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Imposter syndrome has layers
Your work actually DOES matter, a lot, right now I’ve been thinking a lot about imposter syndrome. But not because I’m trying to ‘fix’ it, but more because I’m letting myself get curious about what’s behind a nearly universal human experience. Imposter syndrome is a relatively recent classification (first appearing in 1978), but it’s something…
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Trapped in a plane with nothing but your thoughts
Sometimes boredom asks us to turn our brains back on when the rest of the world turns off There’s a lot of magic to be found in your phone notes. In my case, I found this essay, from a recent flight from Ireland to the US, which was one of the most boring flights of…
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The world can't thrive on your hopelessness
The saying “worry is using your imagination to create things you don’t want” feels trite, but there’s some truth to it Reorienting your focus is a boon to creativity I firmly do not believe that you need to be a suffering artist in order to create good art. And I see the ways that worry,…
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Despairing about the state of the world may feel rational, but these are irrational times Everyone I’ve been talking to lately is moving through a sort of oscillation, wavering between intense hopelessness and sadness (personally or collectively) and a deep, unflappable knowing that everything is going to be ok. It’s a jarring feeling, particularly if…
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History requires us to be active participants in its creation. We aren’t just passive consumers of history, but active creators. Our daily decisions, our habits, from what we eat to who we engage with to our sleep patterns, clothing, and job schedules all become patterns that connect to the ways we define a given age.…
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We are living in a liminal moment. For the last few months, maybe a bit longer, everyone I’ve spoken to has seemed almost at the threshold of something. Some element, or maybe even most elements, of their life as it was have crumbled away, and while in most cases we recognize this crumbling as an…
Roots and Branches 