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Here are 10 things I thought were worth sharing this week:
Last weekend I found myself printing 100 snails for a little project I’m working on:
You can see how I make these prints in my unofficial guide to block printing.
I take a lot of joy in the repetition of this kind of comfort work. It does something to me emotionally — I think, ”Let’s do another one… until we’re dead!”
I’ve made the snail the mascot for Don’t Call It Art because it took so long for me to get the book just right. (Snails leave a snail trail, writers leave a paper trail.)
“I like art that feels like it was made by a free person. I like to see how a person chooses things. I like art before it gets noted and workshopped and homogenized. I like art that preserves the rough edges of the person.” Brad Neely on embracing errors when making art.
“Uncertainty is healthy.” (I really want to read Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life — it had the best-ever book trailer — and watch more of James Burke’s Connections beyond this shot.)
”Looking into the things that you’re not good at, especially intellectually, is one way to stay young, because you’ve got a beginner’s mind.” Stewart Brand on The Ezra Klein Show. (Brand tweeted that folks should read the transcript so they "don't have to try to understand my words poorly spoken through a denture lisp," but I think that's why people should listen: it's very rare to hear someone in their late 80s in front of the microphone! More, please!)
My other mid-life inspiration this week came from our prickly pear cacti — despite being beat-to-hell by the storms of life, they are still growing:
