“Until you remove the noise, you’re going to miss a lot of signal.”
Why blogging may be (once again) the best place to go to meet/create/sustain your tribe. Seth Godin, Ranking Signal to Noise.
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Keep Your Eyes Open
People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you’re going to see just about all that you can handle.
Auggie Wren, “Smoke” (1995)
Dear Creative Friends (Yes, I Mean You)
I have something for you. It has nothing to do with unschooling, per se, except that it’s all about shifting your perspective so you can live a more creative life, so I suppose it has everything to do with unschooling.
It’s my brand new ebook, hot off the virtual press, 42 pages of fresh perspective on getting your artful act together. It’s for writers and painters and furniture makers and anyone who wants to make stuff and needs a little encouragement to get started or to keep going.
And it’s free. Continue reading
The Garden I Aspire To
We’re between thunderstorms here in the Midwest USA, and the yard growth — some of it grass-like, most of it weed-like — is tall and lush and astonishingly green. It’s also getting a little out of hand, and I can’t seem to find a moment to mow it down before another swell of dark clouds appears overhead.
For years I’ve been trying to shrink the mowing area of my yard. I’ve put in perennial beds and planted shrubs and such, and a tree here and there. But at the rate I’m going it’ll take a decade or more to eliminate the parts that need to be mowed.
Part of my slow progress is due to the fact that I’m a terrible gardener. Continue reading
In Which One Thing Leads to Another
Where do ideas come from?
This morning I read of the death of Diana Wynne Jones, and in looking her up online discovered she and author Neil Gaiman had been friends for some 25 years. I followed a link to Neil Gaiman’s website, read his post about his friendship with Jones, learned he had written an episode for the upcoming season of Dr. Who, which pleases me to no end, and then read some of his essays.
I liked this one a lot. For so many reasons. I think you will, too.
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Note: Crap. Could I have had more typos in this teensy post? I think I’ve corrected them all. I’m going to blame it on the pain-killers. Yeah.
