The Lighthouse Keeper: A Tender Illustrated Meditation on What Saves Us
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The Lighthouse Keeper: A Tender Illustrated Meditation on What Saves Us
When you love someone, I think the question that you ask is: can I help them be okay? Can I make their life better without ruining my own? What can I do to be there? To me, the heart of love is the acknowledgement that we have little control over how other people live and yet our fate is bound up with theirs. S is not the only person I feel that... See more
Ava • no exit
To be an artist is to live suspended above the abyss between recognition and artistic value, never quite knowing whether your art will land on either bank, or straddle both, or be swallowed by the fathomless pit of obscurity. We never know how our work stirs another mind or touches another heart, how it tenons into the mortise of the world. We
... See moreMaria Popova • “Berryman” by W.S. Merwin: Some of the Finest and Most Soul-Salving Advice on How to Stay Sane as an Artist
You feel truly connected to the world and to a sense of home. New ideas come from being in this place. On the deepest level, this zone is a spiritual place. We meet the spiritual world most immediately through our relationships to others.