What you're good at and what you're drawn toward aren't always the same thing. A reflection on noticing what keeps returning to your attention, before deciding what it means.
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Not everything we follow needs to become useful. Some interests can remain small, private, unfinished and worthwhile simply because they hold our attention.
Read MorePractice Creates Trust
Regular making does more than improve skill. It creates familiarity with our own choices, and over time that familiarity can become trust.
Read MoreYou Do Not Have to Know Where This Is Going
Creative work does not always begin with a plan. Sometimes curiosity arrives before understanding, and direction only becomes visible once we are already inside the doing.
Read MoreWe Bring Ourselves With Us
Reconnecting with creative work can feel like beginning again. But we rarely start from nothing. Our tastes, attention, experiences and ways of seeing have been forming all along.
Read MoreYou Are Not Starting From Nothing
Reconnecting with creative work can feel like beginning again. But we rarely start from nothing. Our tastes, attention, experiences and ways of seeing have been forming all along.
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