The ongoing collapse of advertising revenue within the creative media landscape certainly exacerbates the issue, with publications forced to rely on reader subscriptions, sponsored content, or pay-for-play coverage to fund their platforms – two out of three of which limit any negative feedback almost entirely.

To the earth, millennia-old etchings might count as ephemera left behind by an ephemeral people, who were once thought to be extinct only to be reborn centuries later.

Too many people think the grass is greener somewhere else but grass is green where you water it, remember that.

a river’s right to flow with clean, cool water is not something we should just aim to protect; rather, we should aim to empower the river with its own tools and resources so that, in a way, it can protect it self

I know that grief never ends. When a friend’s loved one dies, put the loved one’s birthday on your calendar. Send them flowers or a card on that date, and never stop doing that.

Happiness is self-fulfillment. If a person neglects fulfilling any capacity to create that he has, there is an inherent feeling of unhappiness. If a person is gifted artistically and doesn’t express it, if they’re gifted musically and don’t express it, they’re neglecting a part of themselves. We need to realize what we really are, the strength and

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But busyness has a way of stealing creativity from you. Generative work, like art and writing, requires long periods of nothingness: it’s only in that wide empty space that ideas emerge. Long runs, hot showers, commutes that don’t involve harried Slack messages and listening to podcasts at 2x speed. Sitting at the edge of a dock, listening to the o... See more