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The Five Year Origin Story of Entwined 🌿
Read more: The Five Year Origin Story of Entwined 🌿I’m so excited to (finally) open up preorders for Entwined & Ember an anthology and art journal for mums. This passion project has taken a lot of my energy this year along with 55 other mothers who submitted stories, prompts, and art. I’ve been working at on this book for almost five years. Here’s the…
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Rediscovering the Gift Economy
Read more: Rediscovering the Gift Economy(Or) The Internet Before It Became a Capitalist Hellscape The year is 1999. Every morning I sit down at a computer that looks roughly like this: And I engage with an Internet that is much different than our own. Rather than being served up content from various data mining corporate entities I am very intentional…
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Rekindling a Note Taking Practice
Read more: Rekindling a Note Taking PracticeI’ve always loved note taking. Even as a kid I would collect notes and information, magazine pages, booklets. I think it’s something of a neurodivergent impulse. Autistic folks often love collecting things and I’ve only just realized that part of that drive for me is in collecting information. I love learning things, but I also…
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The Ancient Technology of RSS
Read more: The Ancient Technology of RSSHow have you been? Since taking my foot off the gas here at Substack I’ve freed up a lot of time and creative energy. If you’re feeling pressure to post weekly it’s worth asking yourself what your intentions are. If it’s all about growth there’s no doubt there is a benefit to posting weekly. But…
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From the kitchen table to NYC 🗽
Read more: From the kitchen table to NYC 🗽Flashback to four years ago… It was Christmas Day and I was sitting at the kitchen anxiously trying to finish a weaving to submit to an exhibition about motherhood. Here’s a video showing the weaving process. I made data weavings recording each time I was interrupted by tying a knot. I barely finished and photographed…
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Stepping Softly into 2024
Read more: Stepping Softly into 2024Not yet archived. Still at https://sarahshotts.substack.com/p/hello-from-a-human-jungle-gym
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How it Feels to Me Update
Read more: How it Feels to Me UpdateNot yet archived. Read here: https://sarahshotts.substack.com/p/how-it-feels-to-me-update
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A wind rose in Charleston, South Carolina 🍃
Read more: A wind rose in Charleston, South Carolina 🍃“The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.” Last week I went on a creative pilgrimage to Charleston, South Carolina. That’s the easy to digest version. The facts, if you will. But this trip was not about facts. It was about…
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Papaya Leaves
Read more: Papaya LeavesA hyper focus project Sometimes I give the idea that I am “very organized” and have things “all planned out.” Reader, I do not. In fact, since becoming a parent I have very little structure and planning in my life at all. But what I do have is hyper focus. And I surf it like…
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Why I’m Breaking Up with Substack
Read more: Why I’m Breaking Up with SubstackOver the last year, Substack has been one of my biggest creative outlets. I’ve spent more hours writing, podcasting, and engaging on Substack than anywhere else. I don’t regret the time I’ve spent there or the connections I’ve made, but it’s time for a pivot. If you don’t know about Substack yet it’s part blog,…
Cross Pollinate 🐝
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