Keeping Quiet

Now we will count to twelve
and we will all keep still

Yesterday I was sitting at my desk and felt the anxiety rise up in my stomach. It slowly emerged as if from a lake and then proceeded to twist, turn and tangle itself tightly into my gut.

If you are like me when you have an idea for a new product, artwork, business, you want to build it now and launch it yesterday.

We tell ourselves one of two stories.

Words matter. I'm a writer, so words are my thing.

Words are metaphors and images, they convey meaning. They give us a vision and an image of what to strive and aim for.

AMOR FATI

Amor Fati is a latin phrase used by the stoic philosophers to describe and important concept,

Creativity is a crushing chore and a glorious mystery. The work wants

Communication has only happened when the other person has understood what you have said.

A good artist has an identifiable mark.

Van Gogh had a very specific mark.
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“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship,

There is a saying in Afrikaans, 'Moenie die ding ryp druk nie.'

The most important friendship you can make and nurture right now is with someone who

Once there was a rabbi walking along a road when a Roman soldier shouted these questions at him:

There are about seven and a half quintillion grains of sand on earth (give or take). This sand has been formed over the last 500 million years. When you pick

Life doesn't owe you anything.

It doesn't have to provide you with meaning, comfort or joy.

we suffer much more …

I'm re-reading Viktor Frankl's Man Search for Meaning (it's mandatory reading for all humans by the way)

His description of life in the concentration camps, of the ordinary prisoners, not the famous or infamous ones, is quite telling…

When Viktor Frankl was called in to help lower the suicide rate in a mental hospital in Austria he told them to give the patients this one question to discuss,