CreativeMornings - 📓 A place to sit with your troubles

May 12, 2022

“The page is a space where I can sit and have compassion with my troubles.”

How do you handle the uncertainty and flux that come with being a creative? When award-winning cartoonist, artist, writer, and graphic recorder Sarah Firth was a child, her mother gave her a blank page and told her she could dance with the pen, in order to still her restless body.

In her CreativeMornings/Melbourne talk, Firth shares how writing and drawing are a way through the uncertainty of life. Her wry, witty illustrations, which include lists of sounds, reviews of bath salts, and a collection of all things bearded, become both a safe place of return and a fertile ground for creative emergence. Watch Sarah Firth’s transporting talk and get inspired to sort through your days on the page.

text "wilderness" overlaid on a photo of Chattanooga

Our upcoming June theme is "Wilderness," chosen by CreativeMornings/Chattanooga. What does “wilderness” mean to you? Whether it’s a story, image, observation, song, poem, or other artifact, you can share your submissions in this form. We’ll feature a round-up of "Wilderness" in next month’s theme announcement!

Photo by Zeke Tucker via Unsplash

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*Thanks to Maggie Navin, Deepti Kannapan, and Doug Fraser for the link inspiration.

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This newsletter is like a casual game of table tennis. It matters less to me that I score the point than how long we can sustain the rally, keeping something in motion between us.

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Annie Yi, CreativeMornings HQ

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CreativeMornings - 📓 A place to sit with your troubles

“The page is a space where I can sit and have compassion with my troubles.”

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