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Evidence of Effort
The growth mindset vs fixed mindset concepts have stuck with me ever since I learned about them while working in a middle school math class.
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California Nights Haunt Me
Walking alone in the dark of December is haunting, melancholic, and mystical.
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Money, Room, & The Whole Sky
Often, I find myself reflecting on the conditions for creativity; what helps, what hinders it; how mothers navigate pursuing creative lives despite the…
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Great Friends Are Burdens
Day by day, I’m increasingly convinced that being a great friend might be one of the most important roles a person can choose to play, and really, that…
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On Being An Integral Function of the Universe
One mode of being I find essential for myself revolves around holding lightly labels, titles, categories.
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On Honoring the Essence of Experience
There’s an anecdote about Claude Monet, the French impressionist painter, that I think about often.
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Little Things
I love the potency of little things.
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On Communal Heartache
When a certain mood strikes it’s not uncommon to seek out melancholic material; art to nourish the blueness; whether a song, say Elliott Smith’s Between…
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On Creative Containers as Ritual
I need anchors to keep me grounded, so I don’t disappear.
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On Ambition & Reimagining Education
I spent a good chunk of this year having conversations around ambition and reflecting on my relationship to my own ambitions.
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On Forgiveness
People have an overwhelming desire to be forgiven when they’ve wronged others, but it is strikingly difficult for people to offer others forgiveness.
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Zoom Out
Zooming out forces me to place anything that is emotionally all-consuming within a broader context.
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