HeyJaredMusings of a Poet/Writer/Artist: The University of the Self
A place where I discuss the many creative processes I enjoy (like art, reading & poetry), and how we can grow in confidence and find people & places which keep our learning going. I'm a disabled person so the creative life is not always easy to naviagte.
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The University of the Self #140 (opens the original)
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Immortality and Breath The pieces of art I produced for my Antarctica diatom project really caught hold of my mind. It was the intersection between the visual representations of life and making of them using paint mixed with my own breath which began to mean so much to me. I had use
The University of the Self #139 (opens the original)
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This is the fifth article following this particular train of thought - the previous one can be found here.I would like to begin this article with acknowledgement to the kindness and care of my partner who helps me with the cutting, lifting, holding, fetching, carrying and heavier work which I am not able any longer to cope with. It keeps my creativity alive and I appreciate it so much. Another fascinating, mesmerising and absorbing discovery I made whilst researching Antarctica’s more-than-human
The University of the Self #138 (opens the original)
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Birdsong, Botany and Betterness Part 48.This article is a continuation of part 47, which can be found here.<img alt="" class="sizing-no
The University of the Self #137 (opens the original)
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Flight is in the Mind - Umblybumbly the BeeOn the 11th of July, at just around noon, I was resting on the bench in the front garden. For many weeks I have been very ill in both physical and mental health (the details of which, if anyone wishes to know them, begin with this article here). It was very warm – the heat had been almost too much to bear for a few days. All around, the sense that everything was parched; colours bleached and browned around the edges; dust lifted into the a
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Absent from your own life - part 3<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="624" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3Js7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd5587d9e
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