Pookybears,
It’s important for me as a creative to make sure I’m consuming good quality creations… not just mindlessly scrolling. Here’s my scrapbook of all the things that have fed my eyes, heart, brain & soul lately. I usually collect all the things that inspire me in my art journal… consider this my digital version!
Filled with things I’ve read, things I’ve beauty, things I’ve watched…
Get yourself a big ole cup of tea… this is a long one!
You can find all the other posts where I’ve shared my digital scrapbook here.
This beautiful comic on babies.
I always adore Craig Mod’s careful documentation of Japan through words and photography.
Abigail Haplin makes such mystical art.
See what I mean??? I love this character of hers too.
Perimenopause! The board game!
Fan Fiction: a satire zine by Tavi Gevinson is weird and I barely understand it but I LOVE IT. I love when weird, wonky creations get made!
Oh my gosh. This series of photos of the Pyramids shrouded in mist are just incredible.
Delia Brown’s portraits of women are just divine. (Yes! This one IS of Justine Bateman!)
Celebrities and their Doppelgangers in Art
One woman keeps a reading log for 80 years! Gosh this thrills me.
Every newsletter/blog/letter/Willard from Susan Branch is a delight. I pour over each one with so much gladness, and want to be more like her when I grow up. I love her combination of words, photos and paintings. Pure magic. Here’s one. Here’s another.
Speaking of Susan Branch, I stumbled upon a profile of Mary Engelbreit this week. I didn’t know of her before – but I’m sure I’ve seen her art and books. I instantly spent some merry time down the rabbit hole of discovery. Her art is whimsical, and I love that she also has a range of “Engeldark” illustrations for when she feels snarkier. I LOVE how politically outspoken she is too… her Instagram is one part inspiration, one part activism! I think I’ll treat myself to some of her books as a housewarming present once we’ve moved.
- Simple finance advice.
- $656,000 of frugal things I still love doing.
- The fascinating story of the typeface recovered from the River Thames.
- 11 readers share their go-to recipes. (The comments are always a treasure trove of wisdom over on Cup of Jo too!)
- A blogger deciding to step away to have an offline life.
- We can have a different web.
- Cal Newport’s Writing Shed
- Why I Swear By My Year Of No
- What explains the outsize success of autistics applying for college.
- This made me snort with laughter.
- Also made me cackle: upon seeing a Cybertruck in person for the first time.
- VERY important: 8 ways to call someone a couch potato.
- You don’t need to decant your groceries
“Do you really want to spend your one wild and precious life putting marshmallows in jars?”
- Creative wisdom from Austin Kleon
- Reading digitally in 2024. I read a lot on my Kindle, and only recently upgraded to a slightly larger Kindle, so I’m probably a few years away from needing another one. I’m fascinated by new developments though!
- How small claims court became Meta’s customer service hotline. It still boggles my mind that peeps can spend SO MUCH MONEY on Meta ads but get zero customer service.
- Cal Newport on ultra processed content.
- Instagram, I love you, but I hate you so.
- Swiss Miss always finds the best prose. Here’s some more. And another. And another. Oh also this.
- Seven women on choosing to move to a different country.
- Hello from a past self.
- The student left:
The student left is the most reliably correct constituency in America. Over the past 60 years, it has passed every great moral test American foreign policy has forced upon the public, including the Vietnam war, the question of relations with apartheid South Africa, and the Iraq war. Student activists were at the heart of the black civil rights movement from the very beginning. To much derision and abuse, they pushed for more rights, protections and respect for women and queer people on their campuses than the wider world was long willing to provide. And over the past 20 years in particular, policymakers have arrived belatedly to stances on economic inequality, climate change, drug policy and criminal justice that putative radicals on campus took up long before them.
They have not always been right; even when right, their prescriptions for the problems they’ve identified and their means of directing attention to them have not always been prudent. But time and time and time again, the student left in America has squarely faced and expressed truths our politicians and all the eminent and eloquent voices of moderation in the press, in all of their supposed wisdom and good sense, have been unable or unwilling to see. Straining against an ancient and immortal prejudice against youth, it has made a habit of telling the American people, in tones that discomfit, what they need to hear before they are ready to hear it.
- What the next 40-50 years will look like
- Four couples who found love via ads
- The end of Mr Beast Youtube era
- This was the best recap of Bridgerton S3 HANDS DOWN.
- Priscilla, Queen of the Rideshare Mafia. This was compelling.
- Emily McDowell’s Substack is a new obsession. Some of my favourites: When everything I owned imploded. The truth about going mega viral. My mom died.
- I love this OG blogger’s Substack as well: My toe finally healed and then I found out I was Autistic and fractured my ankle.
- Facebook groups I’m obsessed with: Dull Men’s Club and Dull Women’s Club.
- Native Youth Olympics! Incredible!
- I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this, but I howl with laughter every time:
- Alone Australia season 2 was as always riveting viewing.
- Watched this with my family, we were all FASCINATED:
Go forth and make!
We need your art, your voice, your offerings in the world!
Big love,
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