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 10- Sandcastles
Welcome to DAY TEN 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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ask a woman who she is and she'll tell you who she loves, who she serves and what she does. I am a mother, a wife, a sister, a friend, a career woman. The fact that we define ourselves by our roles is what keeps the world spinning. It's also what makes us untethered and afraid. If a woman defines herself as a wife, what happens if her partner leaves? If a woman defines herself as a mother, what happens when the kids leave for college? If a woman defines herself as a career woman, what happens when the company folds? Who we are is perpetually being taken from us. So we live in fear instead of peace. We cling too tightly, close our eyes to what we need to look at hard, avoid questions that need to be asked and, in a million ways, insist to our friends, partners and children that the purpose of their existence is to define us. We build sandcastles and then try to live inside them, fearing the inevitable tide. Answering the question, who do I love? Is not enough. We must live lives of our own. To live a life of her own, each woman must also answer what do I love? What makes me come alive? What is beauty to me, and when do I take the time to fill up with it. Who is the soul beneath all of these roles? Each woman must answer these questions now, before that tide comes. Sandcastles are beautiful, but we cannot live inside them because the tide rises. That's what the tide does. We must remember I am the builder, not the castle. I am separate and whole over here. Eyes on the horizon, sun on my shoulders, eyes on the Horizon, sun on my Shoulders, welcoming the Tide Building Rebuilding Playfully, lightly, never Changing, always Changing, by Glennon Doyle.
Speaker 1:Today's project. I'm going to be cutting and pasting a bunch of little quotes and things that I've saved to put in my commonplace book. I first found out what a commonplace book was from Laura Aziz when I had her on a few years ago now. I think it was. That is still, to date, one of my favorite interviews I've ever done, so you might want to look back and listen to that one. I remember when she was talking about the commonplace book. I did not have any clue what she was talking about and I just thought that it was something that she came up with by herself, and she was telling about how she collects these things and paste them in a book, and she called it a commonplace book. I just didn't know that that was an actual term that's been around for, I think, centuries.
Speaker 1:Another thing that I like to do besides saving quotes and all of that for my commonplace book, I always save little business cards or matchbooks or flyers or what have you from when I travel and I like to paste those in books and kind of keep a little visual memory of my trips. I'm not so sure that that actually fits in the category of what you're supposed to put in a commonplace book, but I love doing it. So that's what I do. Austin Kleon he did a newsletter about his commonplace book months back and he had this quote from Dwight Gardner and it says, like Montaigne, I quote others only in order to better express myself. I quote others only in order to better express myself. Montaigne compared quoting well to arranging other people's flowers.
Speaker 1:Scavenged wisdom from my life as a reader yeah, for I am an underliner and a destroyer of books, and that is exactly me too. Sometimes, to make it even more fun and just kind of I don't know, I get into it I take cute little stickers and I decorate it and I do all sorts of things just because it's fun for me. I've always loved stickers, Maybe because my dad was a label salesman, I have no idea, but I really love stickers. It's very strange. Okay, so that is it for today.
Speaker 1:I've got to admit it has been very difficult for me to keep making these episodes and pumping them out. This is more episodes than I've done in like a year and a half, so I mean they're short and easy, but this is taking something from me that I'm not used to. But I am really getting something out of this. I know it's kind of trailing along a little slowly because I skipped the weekends and stuff, but hopefully the episodes that I am airing are helping you to kind of stay on course, maybe giving you some cool ideas of little projects to do, ways to keep your hands busy, and I think it's a really great way to be creatively cross-training. You know, not just sticking all your eggs in one basket and doing the same thing every day. Kind of change it up, figure out other things that might interest you creatively. All right, until we meet again, stay curious.
