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Finding Flow and Happiness in Immersion
An introduction to flow, a sign of creative immersion and the key to happiness. Learn how researcher Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi described it.
Kristen
Jul 7, 2023
3 min read
I don't know what to write
To be creative in the new year, focus on learning and practicing. Let go of originality. It doesn't exist.
Kristen
Jan 8, 2023
3 min read
Liberated Multipotentialite
W​hile writing my last blog post about the artfulness of soap making, I learned a new word: multipotentialite. The simplest definition of...
Kristen
Dec 22, 2022
2 min read
Is soapmaking art?
F​or reasons I can't explain (or at least, I won't take the time to over-analyze and explain right now), it's important to me to call...
Kristen
Dec 11, 2022
3 min read
Baseball and elections
This was originally published November 12, 2016. It's one of my favorite posts so I'm sharing it again on this election day when Herschel...
Kristen
Nov 8, 2022
2 min read
The trouble with brilliance
This post was originally published in 2013, on my forty-seventh birthday. Today, nearly nine years later, I don't want to say that some...
Kristen
Apr 9, 2022
3 min read
Do the best you can
until you know better. Then when you know better,
do better.
Maya Angelou
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