Creative Living
Perhaps the most anti-mimetic attitude of all is an openness to wonder and a desire to let reality surprise you. It rarely disappoints.
Luke Burgis • How to Know What You Really Want
Choose to be open to anything at all happening, to hold nothing fixed, to hold no certainty except that magic is a possibility. And that possibility is magic.
Arjuna Ishaya • 200% – An Instruction Manual for Living Fully
I hope you will find the cracks in the world and wedge them wider, so the light of other suns shines through; I hope you will keep the world unruly, messy, full of strange magics; I hope you will run through every open Door and tell stories when you return.
Alix E. Harrow • The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“Do you have doubts about life? Are you unsure if it's worth the trouble? Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you. They are as much for you as they
... See more#Grounded: Climate storyteller Aditi Mayer and director Simrah Farrukh collaborate on a lyrical stream of consciousness that meditates on home, displacement, and erasure - set against intimate portraits of home, both as architecture and ecology 🌿
Together, they build visual testaments that trace the emotional and... See more
nownessinstagram.comInteresting piece connecting displacement, erasure, choosing stewardship in hard times… and home as a practice.
Creativity and expression as ultimate freedom & source of joy.
The consistency trap: why women need to stop living by male biology
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The default mode network, once associated solely with daydreaming, is now linked to many different functions core to human connection and well-being. These include personal identity, sense of meaning, empathy, imagination, and creativity as well as embodied cognition, which allows us to place ourselves in a piece of artwork and make us feel what... See more
Your Brain on Art: The Case for Neuroaesthetics
Daydreaming is VITAL. It is not a waste of time to dream, imagine, and brainstorm. It is significant to our well-being, including our sense of self.