Keep Going --> by Austin Kleon

 "A Paper Prayer" 🙏 see "T" below "Build a Bliss Station" Chapter 2
"Creativity is about Connection... but it is also about disconnetion... You must play hide-and-seek in ordered to produce something worth being found." p. 39
"Decline for secret reasons. " ~ E. B. White qtd p. 56
Every Day is Groundhog Day is Chapter 1 I opened to it on 2/2/2025
"Finish every day and be done with it... ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson p. 30
Gifts: pp. 92-97
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." ~ Annie Dillard
"I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe." ~ R. Buckminster Fuller qtd p. 67
JOMO: The Joy Of Missing Out... a blissful, serene enjoyment in knowing,  and celebrating ... but are simply skipping." qtd Anil Dash p. 61
Learn How to Say "no." p. 57
"My time is gone and my brains are scattered." p. 45
Nina Katchadourian's Seat Assignment check her art out here
"Opportunity to reconnect with yourself and your [art]." p. 55
"Play hide-and-seek in ordered to produce something worth being found." p. 39
Quasi-dream state p. 45 Quincy Jones: "God walks out of the 
room when you're thinking about money." p. 78
Richard Walker: "Anyone can fight the battles of just one day. It is only when you and I add the battles of those two awful eternities, yesterday and tomorrow, that we break down. It is not the experience of today that drives us mad. It is the remorse or bitterness for something that happened yesterday or the dread of what tomorrow may bring. Let us therefore do our best to live but one day at a time." Source
"Silence and Solitude are crucial." p. 39 "Sister Mary Corita Kent... would lead her students... to 'See for the Sake of Seeing, and discover all the things that [we] nevered bothered to notice.'" p. 102
Upon waking, when [my] mind is fresh p. 45
"Volunteer your time and teach someone else how to make what you make and do what you do." p.95
"We got rid of the day as well as we could." ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne qtd. p. 32
Ordinary + eXtra attention  = eXtraordinary - Chapter 5 pp.98-119
"You go diving for pearls, but sometimes you end up with clams." ~ Jerry Garcia p. 31
Zine: King-Cat John Porcellino check it out here

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