After lingering on my to-read list for years, I finally checked Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way out from the library last week. Right away, I encountered a core idea of her creativity practice that I rebelled against: the morning pages. What are morning pages? Put simply, the morning pages are three pages of longhand writing, … Continue reading On Day 1 of doing morning pages
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On wondering whether the Beatles and Michelangelo have something in common
The other night, I started rewatching Peter Jackson's Get Back documentary, on the Beatles' infamous Get Back sessions of 1969. Jackson's documentary has become infamous in its own right a year after its release—owning mainly to its eight-hour running time, but also to its reliance on snatches of dialogue that can only be understood by … Continue reading On wondering whether the Beatles and Michelangelo have something in common