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 8- You Are Not Too Old and It Is Never Too Late
Welcome to DAY EIGHT of our new 30-day COMMUNITY 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 for you 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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No one tells the oceans or the trees or the mountains that they're too old. They talk of how powerful, how grounded, how awesome they are. Imagine if we thought the same way about ourselves as we got older. Maybe we'd realize how spectacular we are. By Becky Hemsley.
Speaker 1:I have to be honest, and I actually do feel like this I've never felt too old to be doing something. I've never felt like ew, I'm going downhill. I mean maybe you know, during my perimenopause struggles, but that's a hormonal thing messing with your brain and your body. In general, though, I see life as this amazing gift, and every year that we get to turn another year older, we should be so freaking grateful. I'm not buying the story that turning 50 is getting old. I am not buying that. I remember years ago when my dad died, me thinking back to when my parents were in their 40s and their 50s. Oh my gosh, just so young, so vibrant 60s. Same my mom right now in her late 70s, ready to turn 80, she acts nothing, nothing like that. It truly is a state of mind the more focused you are on the aesthetics of aging the outside, the more depressed you're going to be. Things change, flowers wilt, but when you think about the oak trees, the mountains, the oceans. There's no such thing as old. It's just wiser, stronger, more powerful. I would not want to relive my 20s for all the money in the world Not a chance.
Speaker 1:I hear quite often people talking about women, talking about aging, and they say, oh, in your 40s you become invisible. You start becoming invisible and I'm like invisible to who? The 20-year-old boys on the street are not whistling who cares? The best part about it is that your own feelings, your own knowledge of yourself is no longer invisible. You're beginning to see everything with the sharpest eyes. I believe with all my heart. You are not too old and it is never too late. If it is on your mind and on your heart, you're capable. You can do it. You should do it. Priorities change with age. The things that I used to really care about I no longer care about one iota. So don't even bother. In your 20s or 30s or early 40s, don't even bother worrying oh, am I still going to be able to do this, what you're doing right now? When I'm that age? You don't need to worry about it. The answer is yes if you want to, but you might change your mind by then. You might not even care about it by then. So drop the worry. You are never too old, it is never too late.
Speaker 1:That thing that you think about, that thing that you have on your mind, but you're not taking action. You're making up excuses oh well, I missed the boat, oh well, I didn't start that early enough, oh well, I'm old, or oh, it's, I took too long. It's on your heart for a reason. You're thinking about it for a reason. It's here for a reason, okay, and you need to go for it.
Speaker 1:Today's activity is something called I think it's called Hammer Flowers. I found it on Instagram a long, long time ago and I believe I'm no longer on Instagram so I can't check it for you, but I believe that the account was called Hammer Flowers where she goes out and she collects flowers you know outside or you can buy them. Whichever you need to or want to do. You get kind of like a thick stock, maybe a watercolor paper or something like that, and you lay it down on maybe a cutting board, something that you don't mind hammering on. Then you get a really thin, transparent piece of little plastic so that you could see everything under it. This will all make sense in a second. So you have that. You put the watercolor paper on the board, then you take your flowers and you arrange them on that white paper.
Speaker 1:I have trouble with the stems. It just depends on the size. If they're small, you can use them. If not, just maybe take off petals and make your own little flower, just however it kind of works out. Set the clear piece of plastic over that and then take a hammer and just tiny little hammering on the flower and it makes color imprints on the page and it makes like these beautiful floral pictures. Yeah, just look up, hammer flowers and you'll see.
Speaker 1:But I love this project and this is a really, really good idea. For you know, if you're needing to kind of get out of your head because you're going out, you're finding flowers, you're arranging them on the paper and then you're doing the little chiseling, hammering of it and you see the color kind of splashing onto the page and then you can add and move things. It's really cool. Then, if you want to I've seen them take like a pencil and kind of you know shade things and stuff If you, if you feel like artistic in that way I I'm not so good at that, but I've tried it, or like a pen and shade in, but it's fun, fun and it turns out really beautiful.
Speaker 1:My first few, I have to warn you, were real duds. They just came out like like splotches of crap on my paper. So you kind of just have to test out different flowers and whether you're going to keep the stem on or not and all that stuff. But it's fun. That is it for today. Hopefully you'll spread the word to anybody that you think would want to join this and until next time, stay curious.
