I want to talk about the Almeda Fire of Southern Oregon and my experience of it, but I want to preface by saying: This is just one experience.
Read moreThe Timeless Place in All of Us - Stillness, Grief, and Art
If I’ve learned anything from stillness—that is, learning to meditate, to be still, and to find the stillness inside of myself through the hardest experiences in life—it is this: the world is a mirror. What we see when we look at the world is what we hold inside. And what we hold inside is our choice. When we look out at the world, we look at ourselves.
Read moreYou Are Not Your Doubt: How I Struggle with and Overcome Impostor Syndrome
This post is somewhat difficult to write. I don't mean that in an emotional sense, or even in the sense of laying out and really articulating what I want to say about impostor syndrome. Talking about and understanding impostor syndrome has become surprisingly easy in the last couple of months since first realizing that I have it and have had it for most of my life. The hard part is, of course--and somewhat ironically, I'm aware--even admitting that I have it.
Read moreDispelling the Cliché of the Tortured Artist
We've all heard it before in some form or another. Whether it's the crazed writer in a movie, or the insane and tortured artist, it is a strange (and sometimes pervading) idea and cliché that to be a great artist, you have to be insane, or crazy, or tortured. And as much as I'd like to think that these kinds of ideas are viewed as antiquated in 2018, they are very much alive…
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