Creative Living

“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 don’t believe in 50 friends. I believe in a smaller number. Nor do I care about society events. It’s the most senseless use of time. When I do go out, from time to time, it’s just to convince myself again that I’m not missing a lot.

Red Bull’s billionaire founder - Colossus

Community is ESSENTIAL

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.

When people come to me and say, “I’d like to be an artist.” I say, “Well, you’re not. You either are or you’re not.” It’s like breathing. You don’t question breathing, you just breathe. So you just wake up in the morning and you create. That urge to create makes you an artist but it doesn’t make you a great artist. The great artist has to really,

Creativity and expression as ultimate freedom & source of joy.

#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

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Interesting piece connecting displacement, erasure, choosing stewardship in hard times… and home as a practice.

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.