“Think more mischief than mastery” - I love this. This has been the most healing part of the Artist’s Dates for me. I’ve also always gone on a lot of solo adventures, but I’m starting to see how they often were serving this desire to “enhance” myself in some way - learn more, study more, etc. (Millennial here). Pivoting to doing things for the shear fun of it has been so healing.
OK, yeah, I'm a cusper, but totally into this shit. I've also written about JC's expectations of who her audience is, and how a lot of it just doesn't apply to me (this post, if you're curious: https://open.substack.com/pub/rhymeswithgenre/p/decolonize-my-panties?r=wt2qi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web). It doesn't mean the whole thing is pointless, there's still interesting things to be gleaned and just going through the experience gives me insights and new avenues to explore. But, yeah.
I'm going to think more about my relationship with my creativity in that way, see what comes up. Thank you!
Feeling all of this. Especially the bit about tenses. My protest is taking wild liberties with tenses, as in my experience, memory, especially of trauma, is not linear or interested in being tied to some straitlaced narrative. Also, speaking of trauma, many years ago when I was taking myself out on a hot TAW date, I somehow ended up getting my mustache threaded. When all was said and done, I was left with a very loud skin mustache as my whole face is covered in fuzz and now there was this very strange, very exposed skin that stood out like a threaded thumb. (See how I just looseygoosied the shit out of tenses there?…)
“Think more mischief than mastery” - I love this. This has been the most healing part of the Artist’s Dates for me. I’ve also always gone on a lot of solo adventures, but I’m starting to see how they often were serving this desire to “enhance” myself in some way - learn more, study more, etc. (Millennial here). Pivoting to doing things for the shear fun of it has been so healing.
OK, yeah, I'm a cusper, but totally into this shit. I've also written about JC's expectations of who her audience is, and how a lot of it just doesn't apply to me (this post, if you're curious: https://open.substack.com/pub/rhymeswithgenre/p/decolonize-my-panties?r=wt2qi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web). It doesn't mean the whole thing is pointless, there's still interesting things to be gleaned and just going through the experience gives me insights and new avenues to explore. But, yeah.
I'm going to think more about my relationship with my creativity in that way, see what comes up. Thank you!
Feeling all of this. Especially the bit about tenses. My protest is taking wild liberties with tenses, as in my experience, memory, especially of trauma, is not linear or interested in being tied to some straitlaced narrative. Also, speaking of trauma, many years ago when I was taking myself out on a hot TAW date, I somehow ended up getting my mustache threaded. When all was said and done, I was left with a very loud skin mustache as my whole face is covered in fuzz and now there was this very strange, very exposed skin that stood out like a threaded thumb. (See how I just looseygoosied the shit out of tenses there?…)
Ahahaha! Skin mustaches and slippy loosey goosey tenses are my favorite. That’s one of my favorite artist date stories yet.