HeyJaredBad Art Every Day
Margaret Duncan, MD is a psychiatrist who writes about feelings, bad art, and making things in ordinary life.
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Simplifying for Autumn, As Told By Trees (opens the original)
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We are in our last month of 75 GROW, and this month we will do as nature does: focus on simplifying (aka the fourth habit of our core four habits in this challenge). Simplify was a new add to the challenge this year, and the reason was straightforward: prior challenges were made more impossible because I insisted on only adding things to life without creating any room for them. There is a great fantasy on modern self-help, which is the idea that growth can occur with constant addition. <a class=
Bad Art Every Day: How to Stay with Media You Love (opens the original)
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Finding Practical Magic (opens the original)
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My dear readers, It is August 23rd, and we are nearly a third into 75 Grow. How is it going for you?: Have you forgotten about it? Have you deepened into it? Have you surprised yourself? The terrain external and internal to us is a great mystery. Regardless of where you are after the past 22 days, can you go back out to the garden and practice again today?I want to write to you today about a cult and now internet-aesthetic classic that I circle back to in late August: Practical Magic. I want us
75 GROW Week 1: Avoiding Crash Outs (opens the original)
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Hello, my internet friends. We have reached the end of week one of 75 Grow (plus some change…did avoidance reach my writing desk? Yes, yes it did. We persevere). As I send this out to you, it is August 11th, and we are already nearly in the middle of week two. Last week, I loved seeing the tagged posts on insta stories, your comments, and your responses to my polls I placed there (Insta really still has the corner on the market for interactive stories/polls/questions). Here are my findings from
Here We (75)Grow AGAIN (opens the original)
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My dear readers and 75 GROW Divas, Happy August 1st, and welcome to year three of 75 GROW, aka my yearly behavior development challenge. This is year three, and with us starting yesterday on August 1st, it’s particularly infused with a joyful back-to-school energy that I’ve loved since I was a little girl, and have a feeling my reader-base may have experienced, too. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!y6rU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:
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