My sample is not eextremely big (😂) but I believe this is your best Sunday Candy ever. The rawness and vulnerability + packing it with so many gems made it amazing.
Loved listening to This Modern Love and reviving one of my favorite years in high school through one of my favorite shows ever, hadn't heard it nor seen it in years!
And mostly, I found the note "How can one person's silence feel so violent? I hate being ignored" too powerful, too timely, too accurate.
These are inspiring quotes, and I like the way you presented them Sandra. I feel the same way about the power of words. It's so important to pay attention to the words I am using to describe my inner experience and reality. Often it's not until I read reminders like these you've provided that I recognize I've been engaging disempowering self talk. Basically telling myself I am stuck, or lost, or going the wrong way. Thanks
"Often it's not until I read reminders like these you've provided that I recognize I've been engaging disempowering self talk. Basically telling myself I am stuck, or lost, or going the wrong way."
Love, love, love seeing your Walking Notes. The message about consuming being just as important & meaningful as creating resonates. We're lucky to live in a time where so much moving art and content exists.
Thanks for resurfacing this scene from Little Women. I watched it on a flight & cried.
Yes! while creating is important and necessary, i don't think enough value is given to consuming things that move us too. there's a weird pressure to create.
I am mesmerized by all the different handwriting styles/moods and whether you followed the ruled lines or not. I am for an art that uses the emotion of handwriting.
oooh i love that! and handwriting is so important like in illustrations like yours but i think people overlook how the style of it is part of the art so i love that you mentioned it.
also the flimsy paper notebooks i use def have an impact on the chaos of my handwriting in these. most of what i write while walking is scattered chicken scratch that i can barely read lol
oh i just use a simple self inking stamp, mine is a ExcelMark 7820
“And silly little quotes and clichés, sometimes they feel like nothing, and other times they feel like everything. I guess that was a time where I needed them to feel like everything because I had nothing.” Oh I feel you on this. It’s always interesting to look back at what meant so much at one time. Thank you for sharing. I always love your artfully and insightfully compiled newsletters! (And I’m inspired by your dare stamped walking notes! 🥰)
That's true!! Do you have any quotes that have been particularly important or even just ones that for whatever reason have stuck with you over the years?
and thank you, Erin!! :)
"artfully and insightfully compiled" That's so sweet of you to say. <3
I wrote the message from your found index card on a piece of paper and propped it up on my desk. Thanks for sharing this, I need it.
I really enjoyed reading Oldenburg's "I Am for an Art." Looking forward to re-reading it again in the morning, and listening to your playlist this week while I make some art and writing!
My little joys are:
1. Eating a cookie on New Years that my husband's grandma made <3
2. Having dinner with my husband at our favorite pizza spot near our old apartment and reminiscing our pre-pandemic life in the big city <3
I loved the message in this issue and your notes! I've been looking back at some of my old encouraging notes and it is interesting to see how sometimes they were helpful or hollow, but now with time passing, I have more faith in those words.
Love the walking notes! The way you drop little things like this in your newsletter is an art in itself. I would never even think of doing this type of thing. 👏
I can't even imagine what kind of mess it wound be if I did it. Just a picture of post-it notes crumpled up in a pile with obscenity-laced tirades illegibly scribbled on them. Yours is much more welcoming.
"don't create work/art that's motivated by ego!" that's a big one. I love it.
it took me years to unpack the parts of my personality that were just unconscious coping mechanisms. many work pieces I found there - I now broadly consign to ego-stories. I now know that work feels beautiful and rejuvenating when it's coming from a deeper centered place of self-expression. but I marvel at how I could have missed being here by the skin of my teeth, if life (therapy, community and being at the right place at the right time) had gone a different way. :)
"don't create work/art that's motivated by ego!" that's a big one. I love it.
it took me years to unpack the parts of my personality that were just unconscious coping mechanisms. many work pieces I found there - I now broadly consign to ego-stories. I now know that work feels beautiful and rejuvenating when it's coming from a deeper centered place of self-expression. but I marvel at how I could have missed being here by the skin of my teeth, if life (therapy, community and being at the right place at the right time) had gone a different way. :)
My sample is not eextremely big (😂) but I believe this is your best Sunday Candy ever. The rawness and vulnerability + packing it with so many gems made it amazing.
Loved listening to This Modern Love and reviving one of my favorite years in high school through one of my favorite shows ever, hadn't heard it nor seen it in years!
And mostly, I found the note "How can one person's silence feel so violent? I hate being ignored" too powerful, too timely, too accurate.
Keep the delicious candy coming!
Hahaha this made me smile!
I appreciate you letting me know what you thought of this one!! Your positive feedback honestly made my day when you told me.
And I feel like if we went to high school together we would have been friends!
"Keep the delicious candy coming!"
I'll try 😅 Pressure is on
All deserved! And we definitely would have been high school friends 😂🙌 Glad we did eventually meet :)
And no pressure, just craving for more!
Words...sometimes feeling like nothing and other times, like everything...
That’s so relatable. Words are like people.
They have this whole multidimensional personality. One we can love, hate and everything in between.
I love that perspective! And it changes too!
:)
It does! That change and evolution…is part of what makes them alive ☺️
These are inspiring quotes, and I like the way you presented them Sandra. I feel the same way about the power of words. It's so important to pay attention to the words I am using to describe my inner experience and reality. Often it's not until I read reminders like these you've provided that I recognize I've been engaging disempowering self talk. Basically telling myself I am stuck, or lost, or going the wrong way. Thanks
"Often it's not until I read reminders like these you've provided that I recognize I've been engaging disempowering self talk. Basically telling myself I am stuck, or lost, or going the wrong way."
I mean...I'm the same way 😅
Thank you for reading, Rick!
"But I like that I don’t have to convince myself of the truth in these words anymore." LOVE THIS!!
Thank you :)
What's up with the smudged up timestamps? Sunday Candy is such a Little Joy!
i love smudge :)
there is no room for perfection around here, Chao! hahaha
& Thank you! Your presence is my comments is such a little joy!
Love, love, love seeing your Walking Notes. The message about consuming being just as important & meaningful as creating resonates. We're lucky to live in a time where so much moving art and content exists.
Thanks for resurfacing this scene from Little Women. I watched it on a flight & cried.
Yes! while creating is important and necessary, i don't think enough value is given to consuming things that move us too. there's a weird pressure to create.
:) the movie makes me cry too.
But also Jo's "I want to be loved" scene oooooof
I am mesmerized by all the different handwriting styles/moods and whether you followed the ruled lines or not. I am for an art that uses the emotion of handwriting.
Also, what is this rad date stamp you're using???
oooh i love that! and handwriting is so important like in illustrations like yours but i think people overlook how the style of it is part of the art so i love that you mentioned it.
also the flimsy paper notebooks i use def have an impact on the chaos of my handwriting in these. most of what i write while walking is scattered chicken scratch that i can barely read lol
oh i just use a simple self inking stamp, mine is a ExcelMark 7820
it's my favorite, so fun
“And silly little quotes and clichés, sometimes they feel like nothing, and other times they feel like everything. I guess that was a time where I needed them to feel like everything because I had nothing.” Oh I feel you on this. It’s always interesting to look back at what meant so much at one time. Thank you for sharing. I always love your artfully and insightfully compiled newsletters! (And I’m inspired by your dare stamped walking notes! 🥰)
That's true!! Do you have any quotes that have been particularly important or even just ones that for whatever reason have stuck with you over the years?
and thank you, Erin!! :)
"artfully and insightfully compiled" That's so sweet of you to say. <3
I wrote the message from your found index card on a piece of paper and propped it up on my desk. Thanks for sharing this, I need it.
I really enjoyed reading Oldenburg's "I Am for an Art." Looking forward to re-reading it again in the morning, and listening to your playlist this week while I make some art and writing!
My little joys are:
1. Eating a cookie on New Years that my husband's grandma made <3
2. Having dinner with my husband at our favorite pizza spot near our old apartment and reminiscing our pre-pandemic life in the big city <3
3. Reading today's Sunday Candy <3333333333
Welp this was the sweetest comment!
Your little joys are so overwhelmingly wholesome, they made me smile.
grandma's cookie, pizza and reminiscing, AND Sunday Candy? 😌
i'm happy to hear that quote resonated with you!
i am for an art made by Liz :)
I loved the message in this issue and your notes! I've been looking back at some of my old encouraging notes and it is interesting to see how sometimes they were helpful or hollow, but now with time passing, I have more faith in those words.
thank you!!
how do i get encouraging Goose notes sent to me?
oooo postcards?!
postcards?!!!
encouraging notes, old school style
Love the walking notes! The way you drop little things like this in your newsletter is an art in itself. I would never even think of doing this type of thing. 👏
thank you!!
oh i would LOVE to see you do something like that. it makes me feel so exposed though😂
I can't even imagine what kind of mess it wound be if I did it. Just a picture of post-it notes crumpled up in a pile with obscenity-laced tirades illegibly scribbled on them. Yours is much more welcoming.
“I’m once again reminded of the importance of words and the responsibility we carry when we choose to use and share them.”
Love that and love the walking notes! The silence as violence one is especially poetic.
poetic? 🥹
making my heart melt
"don't create work/art that's motivated by ego!" that's a big one. I love it.
it took me years to unpack the parts of my personality that were just unconscious coping mechanisms. many work pieces I found there - I now broadly consign to ego-stories. I now know that work feels beautiful and rejuvenating when it's coming from a deeper centered place of self-expression. but I marvel at how I could have missed being here by the skin of my teeth, if life (therapy, community and being at the right place at the right time) had gone a different way. :)
hmmmm yes unconscious coping mechanisms! that's so interesting to think about. I didn't think about it in that way.
right place and right time are overwhelmingly important. and taking risks :)
thank you for sharing, Malavika!
"don't create work/art that's motivated by ego!" that's a big one. I love it.
it took me years to unpack the parts of my personality that were just unconscious coping mechanisms. many work pieces I found there - I now broadly consign to ego-stories. I now know that work feels beautiful and rejuvenating when it's coming from a deeper centered place of self-expression. but I marvel at how I could have missed being here by the skin of my teeth, if life (therapy, community and being at the right place at the right time) had gone a different way. :)