Do You Tend To Stumble Into Things?
Do you find that some of your most meaningful and important endeavours are accidental? Tuula and I unexpectedly made two short horror films earlier this…
Tag: Creativity
Is Something Holding You Back?
Join me on Saturday April 4th 2026 for a mini-zine making workshop around this theme of Expressing Your True Colours. What stops people expressing themselves…
Finding Ourselves in the Fog of a Hundred Shades of Beige
If you’ve looked up stuff about the trait of high sensitivity online, you’ve probably been confronted by a sea of pastel colours and a hundred…
Why Is It So Hard to Say “I Don’t Know”?
“How do you tend to respond when you do not know?” We had this question in our Journal Circle a couple of weeks ago. It’s…
7 Reasons to Start Drawing
I’m holding something very exciting in my hands. A physical copy of Sam Marshall’s beautiful book, Sketch: A Project Guide to Drawing With Confidence. Sam…
Responding to the Contagion of Burnout Energy
I saw a reel earlier that made me notice how burnout spreads. An entrepreneurial self-help influencer told followers to demand more power, money, and visibility…
David Bowie’s Search for Life, Death and God (with Peter Ormerod)
Peter Ormerod is a journalist and writer who has written extensively about culture and faith for The Guardian, and he is also an arts editor…
Why You Can’t Articulate a Five-Year Plan For Your Life
Where do you see yourself in five years? Does that question fill you with excitement, or a sense of dread? We are wired differently. For…
The hope kills us…sometimes
There is the kind of hope that sustains and the kind that exhausts. As I write this, we are in the middle of an Ashes…
The Urge to Explain, Justify, and Tidy Feelings
When do you sense the urge to explain, justify, or tidy what you feel? This was our question for the week, and in this week’s…