HeyJaredThe Glimmer
A weekly reflection weaving together art, literature, nature. and inner life, accompanied by a verse, vision, and searching question.
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Beginning, Again, and Again | The Glimmer (opens the original)
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The GlimmerIf you are as directionally challenged as I am, then you have found yourself getting lost on more than one occasion. Even with GPS! When this happens to me, I like to know I can start over, or at least get back on track without too much fuss. I like to feel that it’s possible to make a fresh start.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3Bhv!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2F
Greeting the Blank Page | The Glimmer (opens the original)
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The GlimmerI come to the blank page with a sense of anticipation and also, admittedly, sometimes a bit of fear. Anything can happen. Nothing can happen. I try to remind myself that greeting the page has to do with showing up - for myself and my creativity. This really has to do with befriending my own creative life. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bdVb!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaw
What Ripens Without Our Striving | The Glimmer (opens the original)
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The GlimmerAs a creative person, I love to make things. The process is what excites me. But sometimes I get a little too eager and rush things. It takes a certain amount of trust, courage, and letting go to allow what wants to ripen to do so organically (and, of course, to know when to push a little harder). In Chinese philosophy, there’s the concept of the Tao, which is the way or path. Aligning ourselves with the Tao means getting into the flow of life, becoming like water. Water is fluid yet
Reaching Completion | The Glimmer (opens the original)
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Your weekly Glimmer: a reflection accompanied by a verse, vision, and searching question …The GlimmerLeonardo da Vinci said, “Art is never finished, only abandoned.” James Baldwin said, “You know it’s finished when you can’t do anything more to it.” As someone with a tendency toward perfectionism, both of those approaches feel unsatisfying to me. Abandoning what I’m working on feeds into my sense of failure, and, on the other hand, there never seems to come a point when there’s nothing more to d
Happiness in What's Here ... and What's Not | The Glimmer (opens the original)
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Your weekly Glimmer: a reflection accompanied by a verse, vision, and searching question …The GlimmerThere is nothing quite like waking up to a day filled with a sense of adventure, exuberance, beauty, and creativity. These are the days when we meet a friend, go to a museum, make art, pick flowers, or bird watch. But I’ve learned that joy sometimes arises from what’s absent too—being free from malice or pain or embarrassment or noisiness or any of the things that disquiet my spirit. I just recen
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