READING
- excerpts from Rick Rubin’s book, The Creative Act
- the invention of the kaleidoscope
- How Alice Walker Rediscovered Zora Neale Hurston
- Finding a World that I Thought Was Lost: Zora Neale Hurston (Alice Walker)
- “I don’t care to be right. I care to offer what I can to our collective evolution, and asking people to explore this issue with more curiosity is part of that.” -[Andrea Gibson]
- “Tendril Theory”
- Kanban Method
- Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself by Lisa Marchiano
- The Three Faces of Victim
- organizations helping seniors keep pets
- I am currently slow-reading this post by Mari Andrew; I learned that she volunteers as a dog walker.
LISTENING
- Andrea Gibson, A Difficult Life is Not Less Worth Living Than a Gentle One [podcast]
- Accessing Creativity as a Form of Relief and Self-Care (Caitlin Metz)
- D.C. Go-Go in 16 Essential Tracks (which I learned about via this conversation between Pharrell and Rick Rubin); and this record has sorta been on repeat for me) 🙂
WATCHING
- Rick Rubin (submerging; breaking through creative blocks)
- Reels from this Instagram account
- Alice Walker interview (1997)
- Finding a World that I Thought Was Lost: Zora Neale Hurston (Alice Walker)
To live as an artist is a way of being in the world. A way of perceiving. A practice of paying attention. Refining our sensitivity to tune in to the more subtle notes. Looking for what draws us in and what pushes us away. Noticing what feeling tones arise and where they lead.
Rick Rubin
Be taught now, among the trees and rocks,
from “Coleman’s Bed” by David Whyte
how the discarded is woven into shelter,
learn the way things hidden and unspoken
slowly proclaim their voice in the world.
Related notes about Week 33/52 of 2023:
a place in the ways | starting here | what’s actually happening
… I want to make poems
that look into the earth and the heavens
and see the unseeable. I want them to honor
both the heart of faith, and the light of the world;
the gladness that says, without any words, everything.
-Mary Oliver, Everything
♥ everything is data (love letters to myself): Enoughness | Everything | Kaleidoscope
Thank you kindly for your presence here, Braveheart.
I appreciate your interest and support.
~love & good wishes~
