Loved this on so many levels, Ash. I've been following you for 10+ years now, and nodded and f-yeah-ed to so many of your emails. But this one is the secret sauce for right now. And that's probably the whole point...it's right for right now. Who knows what comes next, but bigger is not always better. And next will be better because we embrace being right-sized and letting ourselves take root when we need to. Along those lines, you might be interested in a book called This is Where You Belong. It's a researched memoir about finding a sense of place in/with/through community.
If you live a life with aligned desires, you have what you need. You don't have to travel the world, or make a million dollars to be successful. You have to live a big life - and living a big life, is as simple as living YOUR life.
Your comment about visual stories, made me think of visual literacy, if you haven't, I highly recommend that you read Picture this, How pictures work, https://amzn.to/4dSmSdE. It's so simple and so incredibly good!!
Also Visual Intelligence is another great read on the topic, https://amzn.to/4dJ9LLW. Anyway, happy reading and telling stories with tea cups. Which also means that you should probably check out the RBG mugs made by a Lancaster artists at Red Raven Gallery.
Now that I created a shopping list for you, heading back to coming up with a title for a recent artwork and trying my very best to channel your brain.
If there is such a thing as a hypothetical nomad, I am one. I love the idea of being nomadic and living all over the world, but having tried living in different parts of the world for periods of my life I am SO happy to now be deeply rooted in the rural west coast of Norway now (well there and France). There is a time for everything, and these days I live out my nomadic tendencies by following and connecting with people all over the world digitally, so I am an un-nomadic global citizen. PLUS this means I can have a cat. All the time when moving around a lot, I longed to have a cat. I now have two. And I semi-co-own a dog. My life is complete.
Loved this on so many levels, Ash. I've been following you for 10+ years now, and nodded and f-yeah-ed to so many of your emails. But this one is the secret sauce for right now. And that's probably the whole point...it's right for right now. Who knows what comes next, but bigger is not always better. And next will be better because we embrace being right-sized and letting ourselves take root when we need to. Along those lines, you might be interested in a book called This is Where You Belong. It's a researched memoir about finding a sense of place in/with/through community.
If you live a life with aligned desires, you have what you need. You don't have to travel the world, or make a million dollars to be successful. You have to live a big life - and living a big life, is as simple as living YOUR life.
Power tools!!!! They were a revelation to me too! The confidence they instill! I never knew. I am busting to see your sink and flooring!!
Your comment about visual stories, made me think of visual literacy, if you haven't, I highly recommend that you read Picture this, How pictures work, https://amzn.to/4dSmSdE. It's so simple and so incredibly good!!
Also Visual Intelligence is another great read on the topic, https://amzn.to/4dJ9LLW. Anyway, happy reading and telling stories with tea cups. Which also means that you should probably check out the RBG mugs made by a Lancaster artists at Red Raven Gallery.
Now that I created a shopping list for you, heading back to coming up with a title for a recent artwork and trying my very best to channel your brain.
If there is such a thing as a hypothetical nomad, I am one. I love the idea of being nomadic and living all over the world, but having tried living in different parts of the world for periods of my life I am SO happy to now be deeply rooted in the rural west coast of Norway now (well there and France). There is a time for everything, and these days I live out my nomadic tendencies by following and connecting with people all over the world digitally, so I am an un-nomadic global citizen. PLUS this means I can have a cat. All the time when moving around a lot, I longed to have a cat. I now have two. And I semi-co-own a dog. My life is complete.