I adore the idea of seasonal thinking and practices/ways of working. I've been tweaking this idea for ages but - days jobs don't really go for this. I do it where I can though. Changing my exercise routine, what I spend my creative time doing, cooking routines, etc. I'm a bit solar powered, so when the sun moves round, I want to, too. I'd actually really like to sleep from about the end of November to February, but...
I did not know that Recomposed was a series either (loved both of Richter's versions so much). Thanks for this! It will make this morning's long drive so much better!
Oh my god. Bad Sisters! I’m halfway through the season and with each misadventure I cannot stop laughing! Great choice!
Also. Change of season. I love fall, and the dark humor of Halloween is not lost on me. I’m also an artist and the season inspires my best, weird work.
I'm also drawn to the idea of imperfection. This takes me back to college and John Ruskin's The Stones of Venice. In that book, Ruskin writes of the imperfection of Gothic architecture and of art itself.
"Accept this then for a universal law, that neither architecture nor any other noble work of man can be good unless it be imperfect; and let us be prepared for the otherwise strange fact, which we shall discern clearly as we approach the period of the Renaissance, that the first cause of the fall of the arts of Europe was a relentless requirement of perfection..."
I was introduced to the seasonal approach to life by Jamie Ridler, a Toronto creative coach. Every season she releases a PDF of a "studio yearbook" organized to help one make the most of it. If you already have a journal, the SYB can be a guide. It includes space to process thoughts on each full and new moon, which I had never paid attention to before. I've used it for 7 seasons so far. Fall 2022 edition is available: https://www.jamieridlerstudios.ca/the-studio-yearbook/
I’ve read the ‘Fall In’ post and now shared it with my beloveds. It rang a chord in me and put words to something I’ve been feeling for years. This “tyranny of the day” is some capitalist bullshit. Thank you for sharing.
This weekend’s slow it down moves will include: the Sidney Poitier movie Apple just dropped, finishing the first season of Only Murders in the Building, and curling up with the paperback of Harrow the Ninth (lesbian necromancers in space, the second in a quartet, with the third book just out), and roasting the squash I picked up at our CSA.
I adore the idea of seasonal thinking and practices/ways of working. I've been tweaking this idea for ages but - days jobs don't really go for this. I do it where I can though. Changing my exercise routine, what I spend my creative time doing, cooking routines, etc. I'm a bit solar powered, so when the sun moves round, I want to, too. I'd actually really like to sleep from about the end of November to February, but...
I did not know that Recomposed was a series either (loved both of Richter's versions so much). Thanks for this! It will make this morning's long drive so much better!
Oh my god. Bad Sisters! I’m halfway through the season and with each misadventure I cannot stop laughing! Great choice!
Also. Change of season. I love fall, and the dark humor of Halloween is not lost on me. I’m also an artist and the season inspires my best, weird work.
I'm also drawn to the idea of imperfection. This takes me back to college and John Ruskin's The Stones of Venice. In that book, Ruskin writes of the imperfection of Gothic architecture and of art itself.
"Accept this then for a universal law, that neither architecture nor any other noble work of man can be good unless it be imperfect; and let us be prepared for the otherwise strange fact, which we shall discern clearly as we approach the period of the Renaissance, that the first cause of the fall of the arts of Europe was a relentless requirement of perfection..."
I was introduced to the seasonal approach to life by Jamie Ridler, a Toronto creative coach. Every season she releases a PDF of a "studio yearbook" organized to help one make the most of it. If you already have a journal, the SYB can be a guide. It includes space to process thoughts on each full and new moon, which I had never paid attention to before. I've used it for 7 seasons so far. Fall 2022 edition is available: https://www.jamieridlerstudios.ca/the-studio-yearbook/
Re: pizza night, thought you might enjoy “Working a Shift at a NYC Pizzeria” - https://www.bonappetit.com/video/watch/working-a-shift-at-a-classic-new-york-pizzeria
I’ve read the ‘Fall In’ post and now shared it with my beloveds. It rang a chord in me and put words to something I’ve been feeling for years. This “tyranny of the day” is some capitalist bullshit. Thank you for sharing.
This weekend’s slow it down moves will include: the Sidney Poitier movie Apple just dropped, finishing the first season of Only Murders in the Building, and curling up with the paperback of Harrow the Ninth (lesbian necromancers in space, the second in a quartet, with the third book just out), and roasting the squash I picked up at our CSA.
Now I'm remembering time wasted on games like DikuMUD, JediMUD and Kingdom of Loathing. Definitely fun though.