When my daughter was first learning to read and write, she would leave crayon drawings with brief notes to me on the desk in my office

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Millions of other parents have similar stories about their own little poets using language in compelling and creative ways. (“Out of the mouths of babes …” as the old saying goes.)
https://truthsandwonders.com/2025/02/10/what-my-daughters-drawing-taught-me-about-words

Stories are what’s left after our experiences have come and gone

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I won’t lie, a lot of my experiences with the real world have let me down, but I could always count on creating my own world to escape it all. Doodles, paintings, crafts, choreography, until eventually learning how to pour my heart out on paper by giving life to my thoughts. I like to call this place “the nothing space”. Turning some of life’s most painful moments into something perpetually alluring helped me to survive them. Overcome them. learn from them. And while, of course, my life has certainly not been all doom and gloom, writing has helped me celebrate and appreciate the good times, too.
https://kaitlynalexisorth.com/about

We want normal people, like in the antique civilizations, to feel like a normal person is sharing that advice with us because that advice will actually work for normal people

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Now they have a path to follow to solve their issues and to be a better version of themselves and make this world a little bit better.
https://queith.net/2021/07/11/importance-being-only-writing

In the toxic academic culture academics should use their time off to write their next A level journal article

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Rest does not come easily after working a lot. I find this to be a culturally shared pattern and thus, to some extent, beyond one’s individual control. People are rewarded for working too much, while rarely it is asked for what and why. This is among the set of reasons why I want to make degrowth world possible (others being eg. ecological crisis). We need a society that values other things than continuous economic growth that pushes for higher levels of exploitation and capital accumulation. We need more wellbeing for humans and other-than-humans.
https://eevahoutbeckers.fi/2021/07/02/on-a-journey-from-stressful-to-restful

It makes me giddy just thinking about it

Keywords: big magic , creativity , elizabeth gilbert , writing

[Elizabeth Gilbert’s “Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear”] is changing my life at the moment – as someone who has lost a bit of inspiration, of motivation, to write, with a demanding day job and other priorities. Elizabeth is reminding me of why it’s important to pursue your creative passions without fear or agenda, and without this, I wouldn’t be close to sitting in a coffee shop, writing this post, and thinking about what I love.
https://aprilinhk.com/2016/01/10/on-believing-in-magic