Renee De Four
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Renee De Four
You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.
Emily Temple • “Write a Sentence as Clean as a Bone” And Other Advice from James Baldwin
It feels like a thorn in your side to have put in place something for the expectations of others versus for the purpose of being in alignment, staying in alignment, growing in alignment with your higher self
Michelle Rohr • Why I'm Currently Not Delegating in My Business — Secret O.W.L. Society | Planners, Passive Income, and Personal Growth
LIVING WITHOUT - How Much is ENOUGH?
youtube.comI need to look closer and see, did my pattern put this system, this reality, this task, this project, this expectation in place? Did this come from my pattern or come from my higher self?
Michelle Rohr • Why I'm Currently Not Delegating in My Business — Secret O.W.L. Society | Planners, Passive Income, and Personal Growth
My ears pricked up when Giles Mcmullen suggested that while reading you close the book after every page & write down everything you remember.
Chad 'Curly' Hall • Reading to Actually Understand
I usually go to the mall to perform a kind of an anthropological expedition once a year and I see nothing there which interests me.
Jacob Lund Fisker • » How I live on $7,000 per year Early Retirement Extreme: — a combination of simple living, anticonsumerism, DIY ethics, self-reliance, resilience, and applied capitalism
🌀 Agnes Martin - My Rabbit Hole of Exploration
Here is the answer to the question I asked in the first post. Agnes Martin discovered that painting was all she needed to be fulfilled in this life. I wonder at what age in life did she discover this? Was it an innate knowing or did she struggle?
I envy people like this who know what their “thing” is. I’m 30 years old and it frustrates me deeply that I don’t have a strong affiliation with one thing. Whether that’s writing, or reading, painting or playing an instrument. I’m starting to wonder if I need to try new things?
What I do enjoy - building workflows with digital tools, solving problems by creating systems does not feel like an artistic thing!
I can build and perfect a Notion or Tana workflow for hours until a solution is found but something feels like it’s missing. Maybe it’s because it’s not tangible like painting?
I don’t know but I think I need to pick up pottery - maybe that will be my thing.
Update 1/4/25 9:15 pm - This quote also reminds me of Hirayama from Perfect Days. He too discovered something far more precious than material accumulation.
What am I an expert in? What can I become an expert in?
Recent a-ha moment: I’m an expert at being myself. I’ve spent so much time searching for my “thing”, my craft to master. After all writers having writing, artists have drawing and painting, musicians have songwriting and learning their instrument - what do I have? I have me, my own unique blend of things. A Being to explore.
Maybe I don’t have one craft to master this time around. Maybe I just need to express me as authentically and unhindered as possible.