Glass half-full
Glass half-full
A serving of creative nuggets worth sharing, the dipping sauce is in the details.
This week’s creative nuggets:
1. The Purity of Noise - must-hear, mind-blowing, branded sound design
2. Birch Community - radical event space of the future opens in London
3. Yoga with Adrienne meets writing prompts for moving and scribing!
4. The Shamanism Summit - invoke the elders and learn from the mystics
5. The Guesthouse by Rumi - a poem for these tender times
July brings the notion of starting again and starting afresh - a glass half-full mentality for the halfway mark. There are still 6 months left of the year; still time for this year to be special or memorable (for the right, or better, reasons). Plenty time to try to integrate our learnings from isolated incubation. Let’s use these days wisely, and by wisely, I mean, wonderfully. Wonder-fully.
Here are 5 things I thought were worth sharing this week:
The sound of skin, denim, jewelry, coffee and even a cruise - because sound is a sensory gateway to experience. Chiara Luzzana is a sound designer with a fascination for experiential sounds and field recordings. Her website is an immaculately-presented dip into her sonic world and the branded soundscapes she creates. Absolutely incredible. Have a peek in all it’s sonic glory over here.
A chef, baker, trainer, designer, entrepreneur, and gardener walked into a bar. What did they create? Birch. Birch looks like a hotel, feels like a festival and the beautiful spaces boast three bars, two restaurants, an interactive bakery, a growing farm, 20 event spaces, a coworking community, fitness studios, a lido, a pottery workshop, and screening, music and art rooms.
WHERE DO I SIGN UP? Right here - well, if you’re in London. This sounds like the gathering space of the future! I’m also slightly obsessed with their content campaign.
Yoga with writing prompts. I’m moving through one of Adrienne’s 30 Day Yoga Challenges - Home is all about coming home to yourself - kind of appropriate in these housebound times. Each episode has a theme beautifully woven throughout the practice - Day 1 is Recognise, Day 2 is Intend, Day 3 is Awaken. I’m using these as writing prompts for journaling once I’ve completed each session. It’s a great way to get moving and scribing.
The Shamanism Summit. Get an extra-strength dose of woo over 3 days, from 7-10 July. All the talks are free - it’s an absorb as much as you can mystical buffet! I’m looking forward to the session with Don Jose Ruiz; the son of Don Miguel Ruiz, the spiritual teacher who wrote The Four Agreements. Don Jose and his father have together written The Fifth Agreement - both of which I’m hiking up my list as priority reading. Register and jump into the shamanic abyss.
Rumi is always appropriate, but he’s especially appropriate now. I came across this great piece in the New Yorker about the man behind the many poems - The Guest House, referenced in the article, is below and offers a lucid invitation in times of challenge.
The Guest House
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice.
meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.
Be grateful for whatever comes.
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
— Jellaludin Rumi,
Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling but start. Start and don’t stop. Start where you are, with what you have. Just… start.
~ Ijeoma Umebinyuo
Starting over,
Holly Jade
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