Notebook Month #5
Hold your notebook in your teeth
I’m working on being creative AF this week. Writing & playing music with my bb. We’re lucky. This cabin. This forest. Words are spilling over inside my mind at night, and I’m so excited to let them have a home. My insomnia is relentless again. It’s probably because it’s January. The month of my mother. It may always be like this. But maybe I will sleep deep in the woods. I am hopeful—the cruelest of desires.
#5
Allow your shoulders to drop down and stretch your neck back and forth. Take a pen, not a computer keyboard. Take a pen and write down what is deep in your heart for this month. Just the rest of this deep month. Don’t think of the stretched-out future. Just now. What is your desire? Write for 10 minutes. You can do that.
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Write your life’s motto
What could that be? I met Stefan Sagmeister once.
His motto is: "Design that needed guts from the creator and still carries the ghost of these guts in the final execution." We sat at a little table together in Salt Lake City at the ALT Summit and it was thrilling. We chatted. I swooned. He has great creative ideas. He’s a whole creative lifestyle. He’s got rizz. Goddamn! You should read his books.
Anyhoo. Try and write it. Your life’s motto. Don’t stop there. Write some operating instructions for your heart. Write a mission statement about the next decade of your life. Write about the complex human being you are. Hell, you have a manifesto in you. I know this.
*ALERTSY: I am sending all my paid subs a Valentine. If you don’t hear from me in the next week or so- please just reply to this and send me a mailing address. <3.
Here is ZOOM for Sunday Supper 1/14/24
Ilysm,
xo
Amy