Meanwhile, Over in Notes ..

Keeping a record of the inspiration and connection

I love cultivating community in the art+psychology niche and some of that happens over in my Notes. I also like collecting the poignant and pertinent and pretty things in one place each week so that it doesn’t all just get lost to the scroll.

Here are some things that happened in my Notes this week

A Face To Go With The Name:

A Conversation and a Poll:

Really appreciated the initial post here from

Sarah Shotts

…

And as I said in one of my responses there, I have wondered if a reason I don’t get more paid subs is because I publish daily for my own reasons and maybe that’s too much for a lot of people. I never expect anyone to read everything and I offer ways to reduce the notifications including down to a monthly digest but for people who have that “all in” feeling it may still not work.

Another Conversation:

With

15th Century Feminist

on “productivity” and being gentle with ourselves …

Our expenses reflect our priorities. Writers should not have to write for free.

And I offer a Sliding Scale Pay What You Can rate starting at $10/year.

I Was Thrilled That:

Things Exciting Me in the Community:

New weekly interviews from

perfectlight

and new shop update from

Justice McNeil Sumser

…

I Echoed:

Posts that inspired me to share similar posts of mine …

Lonely Robot Theme

,

Jeffrey Streeter

,

bakhtawar

…

I Lamented:

I Answered:

Curious about this from Sarah Fay:

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I couldn’t help but respond to this post from

Mackenzie

:

The funny thing is that in every other area of digital life, I stay minimal. I’m a zero inbox person, I don’t like digital clutter, and yet my For Later Library Shelf is ridiculous. Part of that is because for a time instead of scrolling on social media or spending money online shopping, I would spend time scrolling all of the new books at the library and doing free digital shopping that way.

I Celebrated:

Congrats again

Karen May

…

I Adored:

This fabric bag from

Monique Mulligan

I Restacked:

Pieces from ….

Rosie Spinks

,

Emma Carpendale

,

Emily Kaminsky

and

Georgia Clare

My Own News and Updates:

THANKS

And thanks this week to those who showed me support by quoting/restacking/mentioning me. Gratitude to

Morgan Wildmuse

,

The Grateful Art Therapist

and

Rachel

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