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A Terlingua Story: Coming of Age and Coming Up Short

A millennial pursues a dream of living in Terlingua, but after a few run-ins with the locals, realizes this might not be for him.

Mar 7, 2024

A Terlingua Story: Coming of Age and Coming Up Short

Mar 7, 2024

Rick Rubin’s List of Childlike Superpowers

How the Creative can release the limitations of experience, knowledge, and learned behavior.

Jul 18, 2023

Rick Rubin’s List of Childlike Superpowers

Jul 18, 2023

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Patience Isn’t a Virtue — It’s a Practice pt.3

The artist actively works to experience life slowly, and then to re-experience the same thing anew. To read slowly, and to read and read…

Jul 10, 2023

Patience Isn’t a Virtue — It’s a Practice pt.3

Jul 10, 2023

Patience Isn’t a Virtue — It’s a Practice pt.2

Five practices to help bring about peace through patience in stressful times.

Jul 6, 2023

Sepia tone photograph of a man writing in a journal.

Jul 6, 2023

Patience Isn’t a Virtue — It’s a Practice pt.1

Patience is required for the nuanced development of your craft. Patience is required for taking in information in the most faithful way…

Jul 3, 2023

Monochromatic photo over the shoulder of artist sketching with mechanical pencil on white paper; drawing is a bone.

Jul 3, 2023

A Metric for Finding Great Art: surrounding yourself with greatness

Thomas Cole “The Voyage of Life: Old Age”, 1842. Source: National Gallery of Art, www.nga.gov

Jun 30, 2023

A Metric for Finding Great Art: surrounding yourself with greatness

Jun 30, 2023

The Fear of Creating

There are always good reasons not to continue. Ultimately, your desire to create must be greater than your fear of it.

Jun 28, 2023

The Fear of Creating

Jun 28, 2023

The Fear of Moving Forward: what the artist is to do with new technologies

Beware of the assumption that the way you work is the best way simply because it’s the way you’ve done it before.

Jun 27, 2023

The Fear of Moving Forward: what the artist is to do with new technologies

Jun 27, 2023

The Subtle Art of Listening: 7 Tips From an Introvert

Formulating an opinion is not listening. Neither is preparing a response, or defending our position or attacking another’s. To listen…

Jun 25, 2023

The Subtle Art of Listening: 7 Tips From an Introvert

Jun 25, 2023

The Healthy and Unhealthy Ways Introverts Isolate

When those around you don’t see what you see and feel what you feel, this can lead to a sense of isolation and a general feeling of not…

Jun 22, 2023

Lonely man walking forward through foggy woods, head down, winter coat, yellow gloves.

Jun 22, 2023

Into the Wasteland

Into the Wasteland

Illustrator & Designer working freelance branding projects as well as writing about my observations in life and creativity.

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