🐚 Happy new year everyone! And even though it doesn't feel new at all, we have actually made it to 2022 - and that is a reason to celebrate!

With all the uncertainty around us, tragic optimism seems to be the attitude with which to look ahead. In the links below you'll find small changes to make in your life, as well as lofty missions for your creative practice, suggestions for intentional changes, and inspiration to improvise. Whichever approach you choose, we wish you discover your inner creativity and find joy in everyday life.

10 ways to get the most out out of your time on this planet — ideas.ted.com

The average human lifespan is absurdly, terrifyingly finite. If you’re lucky and you live to 80, you will have lived about 4,000 weeks. Here's some advice to help you learn how to use that time well, from writer Oliver Burkeman.

100 ways to slightly improve your life without really trying

Whether it’s taking fruit to work (and to the bedroom!), being polite to rude strangers or taking up skinny-dipping, here’s a century of ways to make life better, with little effort involved …

11 artists share the bedtime rituals that keep them creative — www.skillshare.com

“While I’m sleeping, it allows my brain to subconsciously work on something creative. Often, I wake up up feeling good with ideas”

An Environmentalist’s Lessons for an Improvisational Life — thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

Improvisation is the essence of environmental learning, sparking the imagination, stimulating creativity, and helping us reinvigorate how we think about our residency on Earth.

10 rules to live by: Creative Manifestos

Creative manifestos from Alain de Botton, Yuri Suzuki, Goat Girl, and more to live, create and collaborate.

10 lessons in creative management from Peter Jackson's Beatles documentary Get Back

A great post on how creative egos come together to make magic. "The difference between a creative environment and a bunch of people shouting out ideas is the listening." With tea and toast, of course.

🍏 Eye Candy

The Year in Illustration 2021 - The New York Times — www.nytimes.com

The New York Times’s most memorable illustrations of 2021

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🌿 Here’s to more mindfulness, creativity, and learning this year.

Stay safe, stay inspired

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