How do we begin? Come in! Do you want anything to drink?
I’m thinking about digital hospitality. You’re welcome here. How can I show you with my words? With the way things are arranged. I want you to know me and my work of course. But mostly, I want to know you. I want to connect.
Here I’m hoping we can connect with ideas, with ourselves, and each other. I have found that the more I know, or really the more I realize I don’t know, the more questions I ask, the more curious I am, the more I can feel grounded in my own humanity.
And humanity is one thing I’m certain we share. Unless you put this into ChatGPT and it is being read by a large language model and if so, hey! this isn’t for you! give it back to the human!
So, humanity. That’s our way in, our immediate point of connection. And as humans, we have some shared processes that allow us to learn and ultimately use what we learn to create.
Yes our brains, but also the body. That intersection — brain and body — is what I’m interested in exploring. How do I embody my values in creative work? In what ways is my body a portal to knowing? What do I know to be true about my body, my brain, my creativity? How does it line up with what you know to be true?
In my life and work, I aim to champion the messy, in-between moments. I’m in the middle of a lifelong practice of being the friend you call when you just want to be heard in the midst of not knowing. I have been heavy flirting with navigating ambiguity for close to a decade — longer if I count the wisdom of my youth, which I try to remember to do. I crave the first draft moments, the in-the-moment-ah-ha, I want to witness the process of change.
So, if all of that is true, here’s the hard part, I want to give this space, and myself, all the same grace I am so good at giving other people.
All Learning is a vessel for exploration. A livestream of learning. It’s allowed to evolve. Actually, evolution is encouraged.