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If you feel resistance before you begin, it’s usually procrastination and you need to get started. If you feel resistance after you begin, it’s usually feedback and you need to make adjustments. ~ James Clear I recently read an article about why scientists still use chalk on blackboards. I love that it talks about the […]

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 There’s no telling how […]

When you read children’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 […]

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! 😀 I always laugh when I read marketing things saying some version of “Retail is Dead”. (Apparently they’ve […]

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.) One of the things that stands out to me is that a lot of the best practices for raising a […]

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 […]

The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us into something that lasts, giving it a shape. ~  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 […]

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 feel like the proverbial firehose coming at us. It can also feel like […]

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 […]

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 […]