Curating the Curious
Welcome to Curating the Curious, the podcast that celebrates staying curious in life and never settling into a box.
This show is for the creators, the seekers, the explorers, the truth tellers….and the forever students of life.
No matter what age or stage you’re currently at, this is not as good as it gets and it is never too late to begin.
Join me as we explore all of the questions that come with the idea of curiosity. A place where the possibilities are endless and you can always start again.
We expand our lives through curiosity. One of my greatest passions is finding ways to encourage and inspire others to keep pushing, sharing, living, and making things for the world to see.
Curating the Curious
Day 5- Joy Comes Back
Welcome to DAY FIVE of our new 30-day project where we make something with our hands every day to improve our mental health. We all realize that creativity heals...it's time to put that knowledge into action.
I'm going to publish an episode to follow along with several days of each week (I'll take breaks on Fridays and weekends in order to give you time to catch up as needed). These episodes will exist here, marked with the days numbered, in order for you to follow along at any speed that you like. Miss a day? Doesn't matter. Just pick up right where you left off and keep making things. These episodes will give us all some accountability, but if you need more, pair up with a partner. It really does help!
Join our creative community by making something today, whether it's for five minutes or several hours—your brain will thank you. Let's do this thing together and turn all of this sh*t into something beautiful!
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When you finally realize that joy is less firework, more firefly, less orchestra, more birdsong, she will come back much more often. For joy will not fight with the fast pace of this life. She's not in the shiny or the new. Joy breathes in the basic shimmers in the simple. Joy breathes in the basic shimmers in the simple and dallies in the daily to and fro. Joy has been beckoning you for many a year, my friend. You are just too busy doing to see. The very next time joy wraps her quiet warmth around you as the garden embraces your weary body in its wildness, tip her a nod. Grace is your weary body in its wildness. Tip her a nod. You cannot force her to stay, but if you are a gracious host, joy comes back. By Donna Ashworth. Years ago I would have heard that poem and not understood it at all. Some people are born understanding that, some people work towards that. Some people never learn it, but I really love that poem. After watching Donna read that on a video some time ago, I bought this whole book of poetry that it was from. The book is called Growing Brave by Donna Ashworth. I highly recommend it.
Speaker 0:For today's project, I'm going to go out on a walk during a time with strong shadows, and I'm just going to use my cheap little Ektar H35 camera and play with some Ilford black and white film. I'm just going to photograph shadows and light in whatever form I can, outside, in nature, no settings to mess with, nothing to set up with the camera, just stick the film in, go out, find some shadows, notice it, notice the light, notice the shadows, get out of my head for a while and enjoy being in nature and then look forward to that day when I get to develop it and see what comes out. The stakes are super low. It's just about getting out of your head, enjoying the outdoors, sunshine, fresh air, light, shadows, getting creative and looking for things that you don't normally see. You can actually do this with your iPhone if you don't have a camera of any type or if you just want to make it super easy and not even worry about developing later. I just find that to be something to look forward to. This is just yet another idea of getting out of your head, doing something creative, making a little art for yourself, and it doesn't have to be for anybody but you.
Speaker 0:I believe this is day five of the project, if I'm publishing these in the correct order, which I hope I do. I'm trying to stay organized, but whatever day it is, it doesn't matter. If you skip a day, it doesn't matter. I think I'm going to only publish these four days a week, just maybe Monday through Thursday, so that you can catch up or take some days off or whatever it may be. But have some fun. Let loose, do something with no stakes and just pure floating in the wind. Let go See where it takes you and stay curious. No stakes and just pure floating in the wind. Let go see where it takes you and stay curious.
