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Discovery
Read more: DiscoveryI remember the moment I discovered kening zhu’s website. (Yes, it had that emotional rush of “discovery!”) I was taking a break from Substack and discovered are.na. It was a warren of rabbit holes and chasing one link after another I landed on kening’s homepage. I won’t spoil the surprise for anyone who hasn’t been…
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Home Ed. Rhythms
Read more: Home Ed. RhythmsI’ve spent a lot of creative energy on a home education rhythm that provides freedom within structure. Instead of suppressing neurodivergent instincts to move, to stim, to dance, to echo, to hyperfocus… What if we really listened to our own capacities? What if we trusted our kids more?
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My Novel’s Mood Board
Read more: My Novel’s Mood BoardI’m currently in deep ideation and research mode for a fantasy novel. I’ll keep notes on the process here.
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I’ve been waiting 26 years for this.
Read more: I’ve been waiting 26 years for this.This month’s zine is a collaboration between 38 year old me and 13 year old me. I made it with stickers and journal entries from my millennial time capsule – created in 1999.
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It's me, Sarah Shotts. Zine inside!
Read more: It's me, Sarah Shotts. Zine inside!I made you a zine! Because The Medium is the Message I’ve given up weekly blogging and I’m making monthly zines instead. Here’s how it works. First, I noodle around with an idea. I type up a few notes on my phone and mull it over. I might browse are.na to find some images or…
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The Medium is the Message
Read more: The Medium is the MessageA few years ago I started making artwork with a gallery setting in mind (rather than Instagram.) That completely changed the kinds of things I was making. I started the series My Brain on Motherhood and have been in over 10 fine art exhibitions. That never would have happened if I kept making art “for”…
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Bright Spots for Your Day
Read more: Bright Spots for Your DayI’m still writing a novel so I’m keeping this short and sweet. In the Studio ✂️ When I finish a big project (like crowdfunding Entwined) or have a lot of big feelings to process I like to make things with my hands. After my first book I started my first bricolage The Mental Load. This…
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Home Brew Home Education
Read more: Home Brew Home EducationA record of the books and resources we are using for home education. Everything from science and reading to geography and languages.
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“The act of taking notes in public is a powerful discipline: rather than jotting cryptic notes to myself in a commonplace book, I publish those notes for strangers. This imposes a rigor on the note-taking that makes those notes far more useful to me in years to come.” “Better still: public note-taking is powerfully mnemonic. The…
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Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of the internet A growing number of people are creating individualized, creative sites that eschew the one-size-fits-all look and feel of social media By Tanya Basu MIT Technology Review, September 3, 2020 “These creative reimaginings of blogs have quietly taken nerdier corners of the internet by storm.…
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