HeyJaredThe Feeder Bluff: Creative Aliveness Rooted in Body & Place
For those who want creativity to feel like a lived, daily thing rather than a distant ideal. The Feeder Bluff explores creative aliveness rooted in body and place, and the slow, process‑centered practices that keep it alive.
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A Love Letter to Venus in Scorpio (opens the original)
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Hello Starlings,Before we dive into this behemoth love letter to Venus in Scorpio… For the first time since 2023, I’m opening my books for live, one-to-one readings over Zoom.I’ve wanted to have these conversations with you: about the desires that keep returning, the ones that have grown more insistent, the ones we find difficult to admit because we cannot see how our lives could possibly accommodate them. About wanting something enough that its absence has begun to hurt, and trying to understan
The threads between the art you love (opens the original)
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Dear Starlings,Across the Creative Court Reports questionnaires, I keep hearing the same difficulty: people can tell me which artists they love. They can do beautifully in a class where they learn from someone they admire. Then the class ends, they’re alone with their materials, and they have no idea what to make next.In a class, someone has chosen the subject, the materials, the exercise. You can follow along, learn a method, and make something you might not have known how to make before. And i
Venus, Saturn, and Your Creative Life (opens the original)
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Dear Starlings, Something that repeatedly appears in the Creative Court questionnaires, has brought to mind my long percolating thoughts about the relationship between Venus and Saturn in the creative life.This will be a long email, so grab yourself something cozy to drink, and settle in! Sorry not sorry, Venus told me to yap 😂Before we get started, a reminder of my invitation to join Spinning Gold:Spinning Gold is open for enrollment until October 4th.
Spinning Gold has changed (opens the original)
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Hello Starlings,I want to gather us around Venus this autumn while she retrogrades, with time to become more intimate with the creative things we love.We’ve talked about her as the power that draws us toward beauty, sometimes so insistently that it begins to rearrange our lives. She also draws us toward one another. There is such pleasure in finding someone to whom you can bring a strange fascination and say, “Look. Do you see it too?” Someone who will linger there with you, and perhaps reveal s
What kind of beauty can hold a spirit? (opens the original)
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Hello Starlings,The first thing my partner Misha ever made from polymer clay was a little fairy house.She had zero intention of selling it. She posted it online because she was excited—Look at what I made!—and someone immediately asked if they could buy it for their little girl.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A9MV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%
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