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Walk on the beach, pick up rocks. Hike, pick up rocks. Find a red, then an orange, yellow, green, and so on. It's very meditative and relaxing! Bonus points if you leave pretty ones somewhere for someone else to find.
Sep 26, 2024
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either going on a hike or just exploring and taking my time somewhere in nature. It helps me to get some perspective and reset. I prefer somewhere with a creek, I like looking at different rocks trying to find ones that have cool shapes/textures/colors. look for national/state forests or wildlife refuges near you!
for creative ruts, i’ll do an excercise sometimes where I look for weird shadows or leaves or anything really and try and turn those shapes into characters or just see how my brain reinterprets them. it’s a nice low stakes creative game
Jun 13, 2024
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Try to pick up the habit of taking walks around local parks, forests (where you feel like it’s safe) or if it is a possibility go on hikings. And this advice is particularly special for you, as a fellow artist I have this theory that we have this ability of finding beauty in everything, even in the things we might not even like. And most definitely I’m sure you’ll find yourself amazed by the things you’ll find by looking at your surroundings with calm and attention. There is no better way to feel alive than by feeling amazed, feeling wonder. It makes me, the world and my problems feel insignificant against the beauty of it.
May 10, 2025
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One of my secrets to cultivating a "whimsical energy" is playing games everywhere I go.
If you pass by hopscotch on the sidewalk, hop every single one. If you see a falling leaf, try to run and catch it. How many people can I get to wave at me today? I bet a dozen. How many trees can I hear creak today? I bet 3.
Also bird watching is a great game. As is "collecting" colors. Basically, like @MOSSYELFIE said, look at everything, find the wonder in it.
I've also started keeping a notebook of sensations. Most of them are delightful–the sight of the water after cresting the hill on a long hot walk through the crowds in the sun; the feeling of the subway seat after carrying 30 pounds of laundry across town because you couldn't drop laundry off on the way to the optometrist because the laundromat was closed; the image of Laundromat George taking his day off, smoking cigs in his backyard. Some of them are awful–the feeling of sand stuck in your sock & constantly rubbing while you can't take it off, how the shadows in the kitchen make you sad because your spouse isn't there to notice them with you, the feeling of lovely weather that is totally in contradiction with your rotten mood. Noticing is a game.
May 30, 2025
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Coupes, cups, martinis, flutes, wine - you can get it all for 25-50¢ a piece. And they're often gorgeous. I love my little collection.
Oct 1, 2024
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Sep 26, 2024
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Sep 26, 2024