Creativity
“Our personal libraries are an intimate view into our soul, a letter of introduction and a language more honest than any talk. Books are also a weapon to heal ourselves, understand the real world, understand the loneliness or pain we carry.”
“Your personal canon reflects your intellectual and creative foundation, the influences that have formed your worldview, guided your thinking, or left a permanent mark on you. It’s a record of the things that have shaped you—intellectually, emotionally, and aesthetically.
I consider a personal canon a tool for intentionality. When so much of what we
... See moreDirect quotes from “The Digital Meadow’s” on Substack “How to Curate Your Personal Canon”
Choose connection over mechanical marketing. Cultivate intimate connections and relationships with your audience. Approach your art like a wild garden, rooted in passion and shaped by your unique rhythm. Nourish your creative ecosystem by collaborating and supporting others, feeding yourself inspiration, and having multiple revenue streams.
Sally Rooney
Each word is a portable cathedral in which we clarify and sanctify our experience, a reliquary and a laboratory, holding the history of our search for meaning and the pliancy of the possible future, of there being richer and deeper dimensions of experience than those we name in our surface impressions. In the roots of words we find a portal to the... See more
Maria Popova • The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name
"The role which the artist plays in society is to revive the primitive, anarchic instincts which have been sacrificed for the illusion of living in comfort… It is not the most comfortable life in the world but I know that it is life, and I am not going to trade it for an anonymous life in the brotherhood of man—which is either sure death, or
... See more–Henry Miller
there is an italian phrase: ‘gazofilacio’ meaning: treasure chamber of the mind. it is the word given to the ragged little store of poems you carry inside of you, wherever you go, always intimately rekindling and redirecting your attention.
Create your own syllabus. Choose a theme: mythology, a specific era, philosophy, shadow-work, etc.
Choose books, essays, films, and videos. Give yourself a set amount of time to move through it. This is your private university. You’re the professor and student.
“Content creation is a form of art-making, a medium through which we can communicate, connect, and make an impact, change, and build a movement. The perfect content invokes something in you, it makes you feel, think, or act differently. Tell a story! Content can be a force for transformation and education. Use your content as a canvas for
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