current motivations

Sometimes your next

halting step

is more powerful

than the grandest vision.

​

All a leaf knows

about building a tree

is to turn towards the light.

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​ "How to Build a Tree" from my poetry book, The Wilderness That Bears Your Name​

Advice for big, daunting projects: do something right away. When a major project lands in your lap, perhaps with a deadline weeks or months away, make it your business to take some kind of concrete action on it as soon as you can, even if you won’t get to the majority of the work until later. The longer such a project sits on your plate without... See more

So when deciding on where to focus your efforts over the next year, prioritize your income. Prioritize taking action. Because it’s the one thing you can always control.

when you are willing to make yourself truly vulnerable and you have zero fudgsicles left to give and you open yourself up to the world, the world will open itself up to you, I promise

The calvary isn’t coming.

You don’t need the calvary.

The calvary is kind of all over the place and they are a bit useless.

You are the power. You are the source. You have agency. You have the ability to create and connect on your own incredibly powerful terms.

Artists need to realise that it’s YOU. You have the power.

At one point during the panel, I said the fact that I am a woman is — I think — the least interesting thing about me, and that I would love us to collectively reach a point where that was reflected in the external world