July 16, 2024

A warm rock and someone to listen

When I’m at the beach, it doesn’t take me very long to re-discover how little I need to restore my energy and focus. These occasional reminders are important to have semi-regularly. Apparently, according to some research, a 1-week break could be as beneficial to ‘resetting’ ourselves from our daily work and lives as a break any longer than that. In other words, shorter breaks more often seem like a better path to restoration.

It takes no longer than a week, then, to realise how simple life could be and how much of the complexity that exists in our daily lives is a choice. Beyond food and water, all I seem to need to be at peace is sunlight, a warm rock, and someone to listen.

Other observations
December 31, 2024

A conversation with a pencil

If a pencil could talk, what would it say to you? Nothing, I suspect, if you don’t use it.

December 24, 2024

I believe in you

Are there any set of words that one human can say to another that have a more profound effect than these?

December 17, 2024

A siren’s song

Social media is a siren’s song – of scale, of connection, of ‘monetisation’, of a valuable way to spend time. Might there be a better way?

December 10, 2024

Building muscles

No one expects me to run a marathon if I can’t even run 5km but when it comes to art, do we also need to build muscle?

December 3, 2024

It’s never felt more like work

Should picture book making feel like work? Or should it feel like some utopia where someone pays me for ‘art’?

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