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just a writer wandering through her digital garden
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Creativity embeds knowledge so that it can become practice. We move what we’re learning from our heads to our hearts through our hands…”
— Brené Brown
... See moreIf you do not learn to meet your needs directly, you will learn to meet them neurotically. You will develop routines [and] relationships… designed to help you get just enough of what you want without having to ask or it… but never enough to be fulfilled. We must extract whatever [fuels] our… neurotic compulsions… [and] dace that. Otherwise we can w
how to live and
Not only is your art a tool for connection with other people, it’s also the ultimate playground to establish your values and move through them. A place where you can play God.
— quote from Anna Howard’s Wild Geese Podcast “Convenience Culture is Killing Our Creative Impulses”
The more severed we are from ourselves, the more havoc we wreak on those we love. We hate the people that dare to follow their desires, they become the scapegoat to our misery.
— quote pulled from Anna Howard’s Wild Geese Podcast “Creating a Digital Garden to End My Doom Scrolling”
the melancholies and creativity
I have 3 pages of notes from this episode.
Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.
— Virginia Woolf
gotcha
I’m dead
now see me bleed
do you see your greed?
oh wait— that’s not punishment enough?
the consequences of
all your inactions
but you don’t even
look
at me
at what’s you did
you’re still living
the maggots are brimming
gotcha
I’m dead
— poem from my journal 21-01-2025
Written by Rooney Morgan
If you focus on how space travel works and not on the pilots of your ship you are neglecting an opportunity for emotional connection [in your creative project].
— paraphrased quote from my journal 20-01-025
creativity and original writing
Where am I focusing too much energy on the finer details? What am I avoiding?
Your subconscious mind is a bloodhound for what you teach it to hunt.
— quote I wrote in my journal 12-01-2025
I wish I remembered the source of this quote. I think it was an Hypermobility Specialist on TikTok.
I have time to become. I have time to explore and grow. My life can and will include “this and more…” I can’t wait to see what’s in store for me. I have so much life ahead of me. Isn’t that beautiful?
— excerpt from my journal 08-01-2025