I think the scariest part of growing older is realizing how easy it is to disappear without anyone noticing. You stop showing up to things, you stop answering messages, and life still goes on without you. The world doesn’t pause, people don’t wait, and that realization is both freeing and heartbreaking at the same time

Creativity thrives when it has a home. Although creativity is a fluid and always shifting force that seems to love spontaneity, it deepens when held by routine. My morning routine reminds me of this: journal open, tea steaming, flute music playing and my eyes stretching into the view from my window. These little things cultivate an atmosphere of... See more

AJ Tibando

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When I started writing, my sister gave me this advice:

“Don’t tell people what to think, why it matters or what they should do about it - just tell them your story. Talk about what you learned but don’t tell them what they should learn. They’ll either learn it by listening or aren’t interested in learning. And if they’re not interested,... See more

i was telling a friend that i treat almost everything new as an art project. mostly because the beginning of anything is just weird as hell.

so many ppl try to run the “factory playbook” at this stage asking for too much feedback, layering on process, forcing rigidity. total delusion. half the time you don’t even have constraints yet.

a painter lays... See more

If AI is flattening everyone into some beige corporate mush, then the only antidote is to swing hard in the other direction. Become the feral prophet at the edge of the village.

“everyone wants to be a DJ and no one wants to dance” has political implications that are worth mentioning. in general, we are taught to value authority over community

You’re always a 30 minute walk away from solving your biggest problem.

As writers we live in a strange tension where what we experience is always double-experienced. First, of course, by our human heart. Second, by our poet heart, a far more mysterious cataloguer & cherisher of events. Where the human heart wants to step away from a painful, blistering event, the poet heart steps forward & says, "I see, I'll say, I... See more

ince AI is making everyone sound more generic and boring, I recommend becoming the most unhinged version of you, to counterbalance.