Abby Hue on Substack
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Abby Hue on Substack
In nature, some seeds lie dormant in anticipation of the season most conducive to their growth. This is true of art as well. There are ideas whose time has not yet come. Or perhaps their time has come, but you are not yet ready to engage with them. Other times, developing a different seed may shed light on a dormant one.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
For you if you need it. And if it’s not for you, keep strolling on and leave it for those that do. I say all of this as someone who values vision-setting and setting stretchy goals for myself, while also valuing; slowness, silence, paying attention to my capacity, rest and seeming ‘nothingness’. I say this as someone who understands that slowness and rest doesn’t equal passivity. Buying into external urgency and false timelines is a form of self-sabotage in my eyes. Which is why I firmly believe that your year begins when you choose. But I like looking to nature for that guidance, even in the simplest ways, and I’ve found it to work very well! Anyway, I’ll leave this here for you. When does your New Year truly begin??🤓✨
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Like a tree, creative work has seasons. Part of the work is to know which season you’re in, and act accordingly. In winter, “the tree looks dead, but we know it is beginning a very deep process, out of which will come spring and summer.”
Austin Kleon • Keep Going: a book by Austin Kleon
For Kent, the tree came to represent creativity itself. Like a tree, creative work has seasons. Part of the work is to know which season you’re in, and act accordingly. In winter, “the tree looks dead, but we know it is beginning a very deep process, out of which will come spring and summer.”
Austin Kleon • Keep Going
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Fred Rogers said you can grow ideas in the garden of your mind. Sometimes, once they’re little seedlings and can stand on their own, it helps to plant them outside, in a garden, next to the others.
Gardens have their own ways each season. In the winter, not much might happen, and that’s perfectly fine. You might spend the less acti... See more
Fred Rogers said you can grow ideas in the garden of your mind. Sometimes, once they’re little seedlings and can stand on their own, it helps to plant them outside, in a garden, next to the others.
Gardens have their own ways each season. In the winter, not much might happen, and that’s perfectly fine. You might spend the less acti... See more