Digital Garden

Ideas at every stage of growing

Shoots are the fuller pieces I’ve taken time with. Sprouts are quicker, rougher notes — thoughts I didn’t want to lose. Nothing here is finished; that’s kind of the point.

shoots

How do we experience grief?

Grief is inevitable; how can we think about what it means to experience it?

Why read romance novels?

Romance novels aren’t just drivel; there are good reasons to read them.

On finding flow…

What forms our work can take…

Where ideas come from

Limitations on curiosity

Zettelkasten Note System

When you need to open a portal

On imagining and building new worlds.

This would be the description.

Imagination · New-world

How to get things done when motivation isn’t enough and you don’t want to use force?

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Hand-Mind Connection

How to make ideas accessible?

How/why to move on from traditional research?

Making stuff improves our lives.

How to decide what to make & find creative voice

Everyone is creative!

How to write a newsletter/blog/on the internet?

How can we make connections?

Connection-Relationship

How to be (more) creative.

Creativity · How-to

What are the functions of art?

What is the process of making stuff?

How to write about my work?

How can we make stuff?

Why do we make stuff? What’s the point?

What is creativity?

Why do we read?

What the ANS can do

Adding structure to a project.

Limits encourage creativity.

Limits · Creativity

Who can make stuff? (everyone!)

Meditation rewires our brains.

How to write a bio?

What is a digital garden?

sprouts

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Notebooks offer a way to be in the material world with words

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We can live out what we want to see in the world

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True diplomacy = safety

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We have to decide what work is ours.

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The world we build will need a greater focus on care

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Sometimes curiosity doesn’t feel safe; just opening the news…

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Life provides some cruel limits

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Overwhelm shuts us down

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Example - we’re not here to service the machine

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Curiosity just requires that you turn your head an inch

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Working with our hands allows for thought

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Seasons aligned with stages of maturity & creativity

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Being a maker is about collaborating with reality

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When we make art, we are exploring alternative realities.

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Imagination creates the limits of our world and we have to use our imagination to expand and improve things.

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Community care will save us.

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We can dream up new ways of being and care, to replace the systems of white supremacist capitalism.

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Dreams as portals

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Sometimes NOT getting things done makes the most sense.

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What I’m looking for to grow a seed into a sprout

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Criteria for collecting seeds for my garden

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COVID happened to everyone; it’s causal, not co-occurring

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This is the safest, most dangerous time

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Groundwork is a way of “showing up” - even without feeling like it.

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When we really face the weight of our current reality, we have to begin to ask what comes next. It creates new opportunities to make a new world.

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The Semmelweis Reflex can help us understand when people—an entire society, profession, or community—reject new information and instead choose to observe outdated norms.

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We have to aim to create an environment where learning/growth can occur.

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Midlife crisis = transition = healing. It’s an opportunity, not a challenge.

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Build it and they’ll come

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If you build/write/make it, they will come.

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To go big, we need the capacity to step beyond the rules we know

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3 min.→ 1 idea and 10 bullet points to capture an idea

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Maybe images of cheese will help you sleep?

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What if being off the map is the POINT?

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Confidence can be understood as the energy of being right.

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What if certainty isn’t the goal? What if the POINT is to be off the map?

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Our minds know before our bodies can know, and most times, our bodies take awhile to integrate the new information.

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We have to deprogram our old ways in order to move forward.

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Staying exhausted hides things

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Release fairness and live based on what is possible, without regard to what others are doing

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Accumulation of stuff begins as a response to a loss of trust.

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Disrupt the common scripts

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To witness is just to be there, to remain with eyes open. It is a way of seeing.

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Adding structure is like deciding what to do with a pile of groceries in order to make a dinner.

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Every time I share something, I ask for someone’s attention. In a world where everything is vying to steal our attention, it’s important to ask if what we have to share is worth stealing someone’s attention for.

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Aim to carry both the terrible and the beautiful

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Resting is doing something.

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We make art to experience becoming, to make our souls grow.

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It takes all of our attention to capture other people’s attention

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Art = experience → something

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Saying no is saying yes to your work, to what you need and what you want.

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Beethoven provides an example of what you can do when your inputs are limited.

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The autonomic nervous system has 2 branches of response, but polyvagal theory expands that to 3 potential hierarchal responses.

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When individuals feel unsafe, they shift toward more protective mode, relying on adaptive survival responses.

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Joy makes ventral vagal more accessible!

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Attuned relationships include rupture and repair

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We are wired for connection.

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PVT gives us a context to understand movement “toward or away from people, places, and things”

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Neuroception distinguishes safe from dangerous

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To move from a defensive autonomic state to safety, the ANS must be able to determine if risk is still present and if not, be able restrain mechanisms prepped toward defensive behaviors (fight, flight, or freeze).

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Safety allows for engagement

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Autonomic states allow for different types of behavior

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PVT explains adaptive changes to challenge

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Stimulus-response is common paradigm

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PVT is a lens or a perspective that can help to frame our inquiry. It is not however a static theory.

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PVT offers a way of understanding how autonomic function relates to behavior.

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Focus on stimulus-response is typical, but what about intervening variables?

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The ANS has the ability to bring calm, to spontaneosly engage with others, and to navigate threat responses through social cues.

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We make work that mirrors our own deeply held ideas about the world.

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Educating at home is art

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Just find the words to explain a tiny piece of how the world works

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New ways of thinking with established technology

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Blogs are a place to garden

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Build a library inside ourselves

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Working with your hands makes things happen in your brain