Marieke van Dam
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Marieke van Dam
Read this list of permissions. Check the ones that make you want to pump your fist and shout, “Yes, I do!” Skip the ones that make your eyes go wide or your stomach jump. As you read, you may think of some new ones. Add them at the end.
Janet Conner • Writing Down Your Soul: How to Activate and Listen to the Extraordinary Voice Within
Seriousness saddles the work with a burden. It misses the playful side of being human. The chaotic exuberance of being present in the world. The lightness of pure enjoyment for enjoyment’s sake. In play, there are no stakes. No boundaries. No right or wrong. No quotas for productivity. It’s an uninhibited state where your spirit can run free.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
That labor amounts to constant self-promotion in the form of cheap trend-following, ever-changing posting strategies, and the nagging feeling that what you are really doing with your time is marketing, not art. Under the tyranny of algorithmic media distribution, artists, authors — anyone whose work concerns itself with what it means to be human —... See more
Rebecca Jennings • Everybody Has to Self-Promote Now. Nobody Wants To.
Here’s a refreshing, electric mode of attention that you can choose at any moment: notice every beginning—like, every new drum hit, or every new color that hits your eye when you scan a scene. Try to keep your attention hovering on that horizon where stimuli emerge from nonexistence. This is wonderful for music with a lot of abrupt changes. Better
... See moreSasha Chapin from Sasha's 'Newsletter' • How to Like Everything More
risk the appearance of foolishness by being prepared to believe that world might yet be enchanted.
“I want to challenge us all to have greater ambitions for the web. I want the web to reflect our hopes and fulfill our dreams, rather than magnify our fears and deepen our divisions.”
thecreativeindependent.com • My Website Is a Shifting House Next to a River of Knowledge. What Could Yours Be?
the decentering of human life from its cosmic significance, a decline in our sense of purpose, and a sensation of having lost the soul that gave earlier human societies their adaptiveness and vitality. It seems we are left with a feeling of having lost our place in the world along with a sense of who we are and what we ought to do with ourselves.
John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, • Awakening From the Meaning Crisis
“Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift. “ — Robin Wall Kimmerer
I choose joy over... See more
instagram.comTaste isn't some mysterious gift bestowed at birth—it's simply what happens when you pay close attention to what moves you.