Kasturi Kiri
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Kasturi Kiri
Instead of 'telescoping', how about 'kaleidoscope-ing' here, i.e. "To move in shifting (and often attractive or colourful) patterns." - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kaleidoscope
Adding shapes, spotting connections, meanings shifting as patterning and re-patterning continues through shapes being organised and connected in different ways. Like that ... See more
Adding shapes, spotting connections, meanings shifting as patterning and re-patterning continues through shapes being organised and connected in different ways. Like that ... See more
Kaleidoscoping vs telescoping | Are.na
Researchers & archivists build up a network of every-shifting ideas and meanings.
This process of exploring shifting patterns feels like looking through a kaleidoscope.
Things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. I must graft. I must water, as with lettuce. Ripening goes on in my mind. So I’m always working at a great many things at the same time.
Joan Miro • I Work Like a Gardener
Ideas, if watered regularly, are always ripening in the mind.
No memory is ever alone; it’s at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.
Kevin Horsley • Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive
A memory is not a singular event, but a trail of associations.
In the being mode, remembering is actively recalling words, ideas, sights, paintings, music; that is, connecting the single datum to be remembered and the many other data that it is connected with.
Erich Fromm • To Have or To Be? (Continuum Impacts)
Remembering is active.
Any one memory contains multiple references to other memories.
Readers don’t have short attention spans—they have short enchantment spans .
Celine Nguyen • in praise of writing on the internet
You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results...Your outcomes are a lagging measure of your habits.3
Celine Nguyen • in praise of writing on the internet
Outcomes/success often lags behind your daily actions… be patient
Writing for Substack feels pleasantly furtive to me. None of my academic friends or acquaintances know about my little blog, and I’d be kind of embarrassed if they found out about it—my posts are earnest and often clumsy, and my cartoons are, um, artless. But I am enjoying the fact that writing, for this platform at least, is beginning to feel like... See more
Isaac Kolding on Substack
Being an anonymous creative frees you up to create naiive, sincere and imperfect work - and find joy in it.
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