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I’ve had quite a few conversations lately about joy. Notably: how it feels absent for lots of people. Maybe it’s the macro noise, maybe getting older, maybe the aftershocks of covid or the desensitisation and comparison that comes from being endlessly bombarded with information. The most honest answer is that it’s probably all of that chipping away at our nervous system capacity to be with…
“The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected...for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.” ― Terence McKenna The mind goes: “Why like this? We worked so hard to get here, why right now? I want to go!” The body says: “I am tired, I…
A tiny story for growing your sense of possibility -- Our dreams and our imaginings are directly tied to our sense of possibility. Our belief in what could be outside of what we believe to be true. Our perceptions can craft pockets of possibility or shrink them. Your sense of possibility is affected by many things: childhood memories, the words you tell yourself, the words others tell you, the…
I’m taking the long way round. That’s what I wrote in my journal this morning as I was puzzling through a story idea. I was tempted, as often is the case, to go do some research and see how someone else may have structured something. And then I caught myself, my brain trying to take a shortcut in something that I didn’t want and I wrote: We’re taking the long way round, love. I’m determined to not…