Warp Threads For My Life

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... See more

Spencer Chang • field notes on being a creative [pt. 1]

tamaki niime's 7 Principles for Living

1. Live comfortably and brightly.
2. Act now! Doing is thinking.
3. Through failure comes growth - keep experimenting.
4. Question the mundane and create things that excite.
5. Provide comfortable things and experiences
for the people around us.
6. The Earth, animals, and plants are all living beings
- live together

Encounters with the sacred that radiate from the core of the ordinary embolden you to cultivate stillness and simple awareness. In the midst of a world that is begging you to distract yourself, this is no easy practice. Yet you keep showing up. You are indomitable. You are thirsty for wonder.

Mirabai Starr • Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics

You don’t have to have a dream. Be micro-ambitious, work with pride on whatever is in front of you. Be careful on long term dreams, if you focus too far in front of you, you won’t see the shiny thing out the corner of your eye.

Tim Minchin

Jarod K Anderson

Feb 8

We are not our possessions,

but we are our gardens.

Within and without,

our story is told

through what we nurture.

Jarod K Anderson • Jarod K Anderson | Substack

You don’t find clarity by choosing a topic—you find it by chasing the thing that won’t leave you alone.

Topics feel like boxes — tidy, labeled, stackable.
Curiosity feels like a spark — unpredictable, alive, worth following.

I don’t start with “what to write about.”
I start with what’s tugging at me.
A sentence I can’t shake.
A question that hums under

Opening oneself to wonder requires faith. To be vulnerable when confronted with the unknown is frightening. If we do not feel a bit lost when talking about wonder, then we are probably not within its realm. The effects of wonder are unique to the viewer, and the artist can merely offer a proposition and hope that it becomes a provocation. In doing