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In the clouds

When you read childrenā€™s books, you are given the space to read again as a child: to find your way back, back to the time when new discoveries came daily and when the world was colossal, before your imagination was trimmed and neatened, as if it were an optional extra. Remember those days? When the […]

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Retail is dead

Art is personal, and so is the process of choosing the tools to create it. The best choices are made with the heart and the hands, not just the eyes. So come visit us at the store! šŸ˜€ I always laugh when I read marketing things saying some version of “Retail is Dead”. (Apparently they’ve […]

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We are makers

Before children speak,they sing.Before they write,they paint.As soon as they stand,they dance.ART is the basis of human expression. ~ Phylicia Rashad I’ve been reading through a stack of parenting/child development books (you know, as one does.)Ā One of the things that stands out to me is that a lot of the best practices for raising a […]

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Body of work

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. ~ Robert Collier I was recently listening to a podcast about the art and history of notetaking. Something in the conversation made me think about bodies of work. Sometimes I think we forget that it takes a long time for a body […]

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Seeing a new world

The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us into something that lasts, giving it a shape. ~Ā  John Berger I was recently listening to a conversation about the Overton Window. That’s a technical political term that is basically a model for how societies change over time and accept previously acceptable […]

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Learning through overwhelm

You’re supposed to feel overwhelmed. It means you’re learning. … Give your mind time to adjust. ~ Dan Koe I recently read the above quote and thought how true that can be. It can be overwhelming to learn something new – it can feelĀ like the proverbial firehose coming at us. It can also feel like […]

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More than one

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it. ~ Osho I was recently chatting […]

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Right size for now

Creativity doesn’t wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones. ~ Bruce Garrabrandt I’ve been carrying around a pocket knife and bit of wood so that I can whittle during breaks on the go. If I have a few moments, I can shave off a few slivers and […]

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Consistency is a superpower

The days can be easy if the years are consistent. You can write a book or get in shape or code a piece of software in 30 minutes per day. But the key is you can’t miss a bunch of days. ~ James Clear I recently ran across the idea thatĀ the only superpower known of […]

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A game of millimeters

Inch by inch, life’s a cinch. Yard by yard, life is hard. ~ John Bytheway I recently read an article about exercising. The author tried a new exercise and found it much easier than anticipated. After reviewing the process, they realized that they weren’t quite doing the exercises properly. A small adjustment, and the exercises […]