Finding my voice

gathering things that help me define a voice, honouring my soul, heart and mind.

subtle stylist and a self-willed Everyman

Deborah Treisman • The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami

Molly Mielke

she’s great

Your job is not to lock the doors and chisel at yourself like a marble statue in the darkness until you feel quantifiably worthy of the world outside. Your job, really, is to find people who love you for reasons you hardly understand, and to love them back, and to try as hard as you can to make it all easier for each other.

rayne fisher-quann • no good alone - by rayne fisher-quann - internet princess no good alone

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 prefer floors from chairs, window sills from desks. It's all very symbolic.

Good old Ricky Rubin

How exhausting it is to deny one’s own nature.

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