creativity
Creativity embeds knowledge so that it can become practice. We move what we’re learning from our heads to our hearts through our hands…”
— Brené Brown
Not only is your art a tool for connection with other people, it’s also the ultimate playground to establish your values and move through them. A place where you can play God.
— quote from Anna Howard’s Wild Geese Podcast “Convenience Culture is Killing Our Creative Impulses”
The more severed we are from ourselves, the more havoc we wreak on those we love. We hate the people that dare to follow their desires, they become the scapegoat to our misery.
— quote pulled from Anna Howard’s Wild Geese Podcast “Creating a Digital Garden to End My Doom Scrolling”
I have 3 pages of notes from this episode.
Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.
— Virginia Woolf
If you focus on how space travel works and not on the pilots of your ship you are neglecting an opportunity for emotional connection [in your creative project].
— paraphrased quote from my journal 20-01-025
Where am I focusing too much energy on the finer details? What am I avoiding?
Your subconscious mind is a bloodhound for what you teach it to hunt.
— quote I wrote in my journal 12-01-2025
I wish I remembered the source of this quote. I think it was an Hypermobility Specialist on TikTok.
Poetry gives the griever not release from grief but companionship in grief.
Donald Hall • The Third Thing by Donald Hall | Poetry Magazine
Being a creative means embracing the urge to put more of yourself—your identity, personality, and unique way of seeing—into the world, whether it be the way you make your breakfast in the morning or your trick for getting through your morning commute, or the themes that keep coming up among the thousands of photos in your camera roll. When we confo... See more