Digital Gardens

Digital Gardners are:

• connectors of ideas

• analogists

• story-weavers

• long walkers

• faithful noticers

• thought shepherds

Home Videos of the Mind

My kids love watching old videos of themselves. And honestly, I love it too. Those moments remind them who they are — their story, their people, their place. It’s way better than watching some stranger’s life on a screen.

And I realized: revisiting my own notes does the same thing for me.

A Instagram reel gives you a jolt. A

My digital garden is a hybrid of two ancient practices: the commonplace book (what I collect) and the journal (what I create). Sublime is the ecosystem where both grow side by side.

The Quote Basket

I stumbled on a collection called “Quote Basket” in Sublime, and instantly… I was gone.
Because that’s exactly what it feels like when someone gathers lines that moved them.

Picture a field.

Wildflowers everywhere.
Some tall, some tiny.
Some bright, some subtle.
Some you almost miss until the wind tilts them just right.

A meaning-maker

The Non-Literal Home for Ideas

(aka: Why “Creator Compass” beats “Creativity” every day of the week)

Most people name their notebooks like they’re labeling bins in a garage:

• “Creativity”

• “Parenting”

• “Career”

• “Ideas”

These containers feel tidy, but they’re actually sterile. They don’t invite you back. They don’t shape your thinking. They don’t function as

Worm Castings & Idea Gardens

I found a little mound on my walk today and thought it was animal droppings… turns out it was worm castings. Basically a bunch of earthworms pushing out tiny pellets of soil as they tunnel underground. One worm can’t make a pile like that. It takes a whole group, all working the same tunnel, little by little.

And