Art comes from artists seeking to answer the questions they have about the world. It helps if others are also have the same questions.
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Every culture has an alcohol
How is it that every culture independently invented their own alcohol?
Giving something back to the timeline
We like to think of artists as individuals, but nothing could be further from the truth.
There’s no such thing as breakfast
Cultural norms and immutable laws are not the same things. Is our idea of breakfast holding us back?
Am I a writer yet?
What will it take for me to embrace (or feel like I’ve earned) a label like ‘writer’?
The trade of vulnerability
There seems a universal law – the more you risk, the greater the reward. It governs everything we do from the obvious – gambling – to the less obvious – love. Putting ‘yourself’ out there takes courage because it means we’re making ourselves vulnerable. Vulnerable to attack. Vulnerable to critique. Vulnerable to making mistakes that people… Continue reading The trade of vulnerability
The person up-ahead
Maybe, instead of trying to compare choices to make big decisions we need to focus on the tiny decisions we make, everyday.
Faith in connection
Not everything needs evidence. Sometimes, faith is enough to change the world.
I can’t cook like Nigella Lawson
There’s value in mimicry because even if you try to copy your inspiration, line for line, pixel for pixel, you’ll never create the exact same thing as someone else, and that’s OK.
Alone days
I spend approximately 90% of my non-sleeping hours in collaboration or conversation with others. From the moment I wake up and say good morning to my partner, I enter into almost hourly context switching – different people, different problems, different conversations. Then, when evening descends, it’s back to dinner-table conversations with loved ones before a… Continue reading Alone days