The idea of
the garden was becoming
steadily wilder.
There’s some fear involved in doing what you love. I get up every morning and I look at that fear and say to myself, ‘I’m doing what I love today,’ and that gets me through the day.
— Norma Jeanne Maloney, sign painter. (via explore-blog)
(via explore-blog)
I think people are staying here and they’re building a sensibility that you can create and love what you do in the place that you live.
— Carolyn Patton, ProCreator at Patton Communications speaking at CreativeMornings/Edmonton (watch the talk)
(Source: creativemorningsedmonton, via creativemornings)
Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an an enormous reward. You will have created something.
— Kurt Vonnegut via swissmiss
Meraki (pronounced may-rah-kee; Greek): Doing something with soul, creativity, or love. It’s when you put something of yourself into what you’re doing.
— 25 Handy Words That Simply Don’t Exist In English via this infographic via Radiolab’s tumblr Side note: this my 100th post on tumblr!
