Finding my voice
gathering things that help me define a voice, honouring my soul, heart and mind.
Finding my voice
I used to be a parrot, echoing other people's ideas, opinions, and beliefs, because I wasn’t sure of my own. I thought that by ‘borrowing’ and mimicking, I’d be more likeable, it’d be easier to seem cool, clever, or to belong. Looking back now, it gives me the ick—the amount of shit I nodded along to, gross. I think I was scared of looking stupid, ... See more
Zoe Scaman • Forty Years, Forty Lessons
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’ve always been a tactile learner and lover of systems, and structures that help with application and retention
WePresent | Cosmically Speaking: An essay by Holly Murchison
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a reminder and an intention.
Your lifestyle is your art. That is how you focus on being and not making.
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I prefer floors from chairs, window sills from desks. It's all very symbolic.
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As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES. In doing this, he is fulfilling a need (giving himself identity by functioning in a set pattern toward a set goal), he avoids frustrating his potential (choosing a path... See more
Farnam Street • Hunter S. Thompson’s Letter on Finding Your Purpose and Living a Meaningful Life
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Holley M. Kholi-Murchison – Towards Satiety: Charting New...
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Time to reconsider how we look at work. Holley's deep dive into this area highly resonates to that of my own path and questions I pose around what it means to feel fulfilled and authentic in the work that we do. She has come to know work as: "A lifelong devotion, to deliberation and transcendence of myself, my family and community, and society at large. What that contribution looks like shifts over time, and the action or inaction within that contribution can be grand gestures or small simple deeds - that's the beauty of it." She describes her current work resembling a manifesto: To honor self-acceptance as the antidote to the allure of external validation. To cherish and express my uninhibited creative expression and honour my weirdness, whether it makes me money or not. To share the unfolding of my story, the triumphs, the falls, the lifts, the climbs in artful, honest ways that challenge people to not turn away from themselves.
“I believe that I am loved beyond measure by a magnificent, complex, amused God who has given me power over practically nothing.”
“Writing gave me the thing that meditation promised, but I could never have it happen in meditation until very recently where time stops or changes, and I’m here but not here.”
“What if I’m not on duty all the time? What i
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I am wired to fear my own breaking free.