You need ergonomics and flow — When you take a walk, you make a loop, starting and ending at your home. The most efficient way (in time and energy) to get home would have been just to stay home, but walks aren’t about efficiency of locomotion; they are about walking. If your walk has a specific…

Get curious and creative instead — Discussing environmental impacts and sustainable technology brings up interesting reactions in people. When I wrote a post comparing notebooks from a sustainability point of view, one of my friends praised it before wincing and saying “I’m one of those terrible people who have a Moleskine.” This friend is not a…

And its graceful lines — I’ve been meaning to draw the orchid that sits on my kitchen island for a while. After I pick it up to soak its roots at the sink, I always set it back in the same position. It’s been growing steadfastly toward the sun from the window. To draw it…

And how it does and doesn’t make a difference — It’s common among journalers to worry about wasting paper. Some feel like they need to save their ‘nice’ notebooks for important thoughts worthy of the thick paper and ornate covers. Others choose to go paperless for environmental reasons, and do their journaling on a tablet instead. I’m somewhere in the…

Two sun-loving life forms sit on a patio — I’m inside the house, and the clutter around me is creeping in. I head toward the door, getting snagged on distractions along the way. I’ll go outside, but not too far out — to the patio that clings to the house wall like a scale. …

What would you do first? — Recently, I’d been feeling behind on everything. I tend to have a lot of projects, and when I get stuck on one, the whole machine grinds to a halt as I hyperfocus on fixing it. I can’t work on my novel till I catch up on research, and I can’t…

And how fast do we need to innovate to get there? Research Tidbit #8 — From January to March 2022, I set myself a sustainability reading project, where I read about climate change, and blogged about my reading progress. It’s now April and that reading project is complete. It was such a success that I’ve charged headfirst into the next one. Here is a continuation…

…by smoothing every step of your journey into ‘Creative World’ — Being creative feels like entering a different world. It’s just you and your ideas, exploring possibilities and building monuments. The regular world of schedules, bills, and housework falls away. It can be difficult to access that state of flow. …

So the next one should be even better — From January to March 2022, I set myself a sustainability reading project, to read and blog about all the foundational climate change texts that I thought I’d need to fluently understand the latest news in the field, and to identify opportunities to get involved. As of mid April, I can…