Perspectives On The Art Of Life
Responsibility Has Edges
Taking responsibility is a virtue; taking too much is a hidden vice. How to tell what is actually yours to carry — and set down what was never yours.
Responsibility Has Edges
Taking responsibility is a virtue; taking too much is a hidden vice. How to tell what is actually yours to carry — and set down what was never yours.
Courage Is the Willingness to Pay
Courage isn’t the absence of fear — it’s the willingness to pay the price of what you value. The two ways courage fails, and a small way to practice it.
Courage Is the Willingness to Pay
Courage isn’t the absence of fear — it’s the willingness to pay the price of what you value. The two ways courage fails, and a small way to practice it.
Sometimes Anger Should Become a Painting First
Between unleashing a feeling and swallowing it, there’s a third road: give it a form. On transmuting anger, grief, and longing — in a studio, or an unsent letter.
Sometimes Anger Should Become a Painting First
Between unleashing a feeling and swallowing it, there’s a third road: give it a form. On transmuting anger, grief, and longing — in a studio, or an unsent letter.
Letting Go of Your Own Ideas
A belief held too tightly stops serving you and starts running you. On unhanding — holding even your firmest ideas with an open hand, and choosing the territory over the...
Letting Go of Your Own Ideas
A belief held too tightly stops serving you and starts running you. On unhanding — holding even your firmest ideas with an open hand, and choosing the territory over the...
What Love Asks That Feeling Doesn’t
Love isn’t only a feeling — it’s a way of seeing, and something you do. The difference between love that grips and love that frees, and the test that tells...
What Love Asks That Feeling Doesn’t
Love isn’t only a feeling — it’s a way of seeing, and something you do. The difference between love that grips and love that frees, and the test that tells...
How to Choose a Piece That Meets You
Most art-buying advice is really decorating advice. How to choose a piece that meets you — one you’ll still be glad to see in five years, not one that just...
How to Choose a Piece That Meets You
Most art-buying advice is really decorating advice. How to choose a piece that meets you — one you’ll still be glad to see in five years, not one that just...