Creative Living
A writing example: when I look back in my notes I realize so much of what I write about today I was ruminating about 2-3 years ago. I always knew what I was going to say. I just didn’t have the tools, I didn’t have the maturity, I didn’t have the language or sensitivity to beauty to recognize what that was. So much of what I learned was latent,... See more
Nix 🕊 • things that take time
Creativity and expression as ultimate freedom & source of joy.
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.
“There is no pain in my life that has not been given value by the alchemy of creative attention.”
― Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
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
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 feel such intense gratitude when I read a book by someone who, for a brief moment, makes me feel less alone in the world and makes these complicated things in my brain feel a little easier to understand.
Kevin Wilson • On What Makes a Good Writer with Kevin Wilson
So important to create. Even if you think your story isn’t important or your voice isn’t you unique.. you never know when it will touch someone and change their life.
