Letters About Mental Health
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125 / Silence The Influencers
Some notes on the challenge of finding your own voice in this noisy world
• 5 minute read
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119 / Aquanimity
The power of radical acceptance; or - what I talk about when I talk about swimming
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110 / New Shoots
On creative bereavement and new beginnings - plus some important announcements about this newsletter.
• 4 minute read
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107 / Three! New! Things!
Two videos and a comic short story - all finished this week.
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105 / Noticing What You Notice
Trusting that something is interesting simply because you find it interesting…a radical act of self-love.
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097 / Portrait Of A Year
I drew myself every week for a year - and now I see myself transformed.
• 4 minute read
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095 / Fill More Sketchbooks!
A new year is a perfect time to start a new daily sketchbook habit. Here’s some more advice on how to make it work.
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090 / Don't Make Work Out Of Things You Enjoy
Some thoughts on creativity and work, plus an important announcement about the future of this newsletter.
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088 / This Is The Time To Be Slow
Some advice for artists who feel they should be more productive this year
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087 / Psychoterratica
A joyful moment with sweat on my brow, my blistered hands caked in thick dirt, interacting with the earth in a meaningful way.
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075 / White Supremacy Interlude
Some quiet thoughts in the wake of George Floyd’s murder and all that has followed.
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073 / Solitary Refinement
As the lockdown continues, I’ve been thinking about what things from this period of self-isolation I want to keep.
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066 / The Grief In Our Lungs
The world locks down, we are left with little choice but to sit alone with our pain. Some thoughts on grief.
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065 / You Don't Need To Make Art Today
Some thoughts from the first days of lockdown - should you be making art out of all this chaos? Don’t feel guilty if you can’t.
• 3 minute read
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064 / We're The Extras
I don’t know about you, but I feel insignificant in the face of extraordinary events.
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060 / Stormy Weather
A short comic about weathering my own personal storms this month.
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058 / A Kind of Aliveness I Live For
A crucial distinction for all artists - you don’t think in order to draw, you draw in order to think.
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057 / Endings
My life has a lot of endings in it right now. Some reflections on the passing of Kobe Bryant.
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032 / Hobbies
How I have denied myself a hobby for most of my life - until this summer.
• 4 minute read
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027 / I Don't Know How To Be Older Than This
How I lost my way and some advice for creative folk in their 30s.
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024 / The Sacred Stage
Are you feeling creatively blocked? You might be thinking about your ideas all wrong.
• 4 minute read