![[SS-Header-Compost-Heap-Gracie-Klumpp.jpg|From the Compost Heap header. A pencil style illustration of a compost heap with flowers and plants growing around it. A bee buzzes by and a white rabbit hops by.]] ###### Not Delivered via email. ## It’s a Blur [[2024-09-Week-3]] blurred into this one. I’m not really sure which items were for which week. I just kept pushing stuff forward for later. I may come back and tidy this up. Or not. I’m still exhausted. October 5, 2024 --- Published [Entwined Bibliography](https://sarahshotts.substack.com/p/entwined-bibliography) --- ## Highlights Reached funding goal on Entwined (early.) ![[2024-09-24-Entwined-Funded.jpeg]] ![[2024-09-24-Chill.jpeg]] Set up for the Entwined livestream: ![[2024-09-24-Studio.jpeg]] Brought my armchair out to the studio since sitting in my desk chair for the last livestream wrecked my back. ![[2024-09-24-Studio-Untidy.jpeg]] --- Doodling with crayons while David mixes colored water. He says, "What a great day!" ![[2024-09-23-Coloring.jpeg]] ![[2024-09-23-Color-Mixing3.jpeg]] ![[2024-09-23-Color-Mixing2.jpeg]] Color mixing is part of our [[Holistic Handwriting]] approach. ![[2024-09-16-Prodigies.jpeg]] Zoomed a new doctor. [She listened.](https://substack.com/@sarahshotts/note/c-69458617) --- ## Digital Foraging 🍁 Gardener’s World 2024: Episode 23 [Joshua Sparkes](https://www.instagram.com/joshua_sparkes?igsh=MWJsZnYwaGY4NnY0ag==) - Japanese Natural Farming (Fukuoka Method) combining fruit & veg & weeds to make natural ecosystems [Bokashi](https://www.azdeq.gov/bokashi-compost-guide) - indoor two bucket composting alternative (loses less to greenhouse gas & small footprint) apply as a liquid [Winterbourne](https://www.instagram.com/winterbournehg?igsh=MTB3ZjdyOTQ1Mm03ZQ==) Arts & Crafts House and Garden (Birmingham, UK) [Martha Swales](https://www.instagram.com/marfskitchengarden?igsh=NjcyczE2Y3VqbmE5), Little London Food Garden Strawberry Myrtle Evergreen Honeysuckle Sanguisorba [UK Horticultural Grit](https://www.reddit.com/r/GardenersWorld/comments/11p09vt/the_american_version_of_grit/) --- [The Forgotten Viral Video that Could Never be Made Today](https://youtu.be/4A80S_e4QvE?si=qFTbllYXLvOu-715) (Hank Green) [Bree Sharp's David Duchovny in HD](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wijp4-3giNw&t=0s) --- https://substack.com/@sarahshotts/note/c-69997176?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=836c5 Motherlore - https://www.instagram.com/p/DAJkVIWxmfj/?igsh=OWQ4YjlwczRybTE= https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/childhoods https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/musician-kamasi-washington-on-recentering-creativity-as-a-parent/ https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/designer-and-artist-nicole-mclaughlin-on-detaching-from-the-permanence-of-your-work/ http://pietmondriaan.com/tag/sol-lewitt/ https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-tZLnIy5Lt/?igsh=NzJ4aTVxM3ppN3Zs Watch: https://youtu.be/hCEqQV5eIjk?si=szSkrRqmdexIG96o --- ### Add to Self pub 101 https://substack.com/@nathanielroy/note/c-69853521?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=836c5 https://nathanielroy.substack.com/p/i-can-tell-your-book-was-self-published?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true --- [Georgia O'Keefe Tree Drawing](https://www.instagram.com/p/DAdqJxIsLt9/?igsh=MW5tdGEwNXpqZWY5MA%3D%3D) https://www.instagram.com/p/DABmPUAimmH/?igsh=dDNhYzF0djk2d3Bn https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9HNVZosNAE/?igsh=MTNqcDN1bzAyZ3prdg== https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-KLBYSJYz8/?igsh=MTF1aWg4dzloczdyZg== https://www.instagram.com/p/C__23IIS35a/?igsh=MWxmZjV3bHAwdnhrNg== https://www.instagram.com/p/DAAuvBcMkSu/?igsh=MWluN2t2dm5kcm9kcQ== > The culture we are immersed in shapes our tastes, desires, motivations, beliefs, and so on — shapes it more than you would think if you’ve only interacted with people from a similar cultural background. https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/ai-tutors?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true --- ## Add to Self Pub 101 https://tomcox.substack.com/p/the-post-book-crash-is-real-and-dont?utm_source=post-banner&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true > I have now published 14 books and if I’m completely honest with myself there’s probably not been a single one of those that hasn’t been accompanied by a sizeable emotional crash somewhere along the line, typically in the weeks directly after publication. Sometimes the crash is based more rationally on factual evidence, sometimes less so. Do other authors manage to avoid it? Perhaps some do. But I know the pattern is not unique to me, and I have learned that it’s pretty much inevitable and there’s not much to do except ride it out until you begin to feel robust enough to regroup. > My books are not designed for immediate explosive success; they tend to find their readers gradually and quietly, by word of mouth. It’s the way I write them, but it’s also inevitably what happens when you don’t have a big marketing budget behind you. > The people who it’s written for get it. I already have heard from them and trust they haven’t been lying when they’ve told me they felt bereft when the book ended. The people who it isn’t written for, meanwhile, will call it “weird” or belch out a [shitty review](https://tomcox.substack.com/p/why-reading-online-reviews-of-your) of it online based on the 30 pages of it they read. --- https://gracerother.substack.com/p/august-768?utm_source=post-banner&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true > You may be wondering how starting a new project could in any way ease an already busy time, but these quilts live in my mind until I make them and sometimes my mind is too full to hold all of them. This new quilt is one I’ve been affectionately calling “compost quilt”. It’s made entirely from old clothing handed down to me from a few households in our fam. I’m using the fastest, least wasteful of patterns: a wide strip quilt. I cut with a looser hand than I usually do, keeping in stains and worn parts. This is not an heirloom piece- its purpose is in the using up and the making. --- Note to Self: *Note somewhere 5 sheets, one envelope and stamp comes to 1oz exactly (with current paper & envelopes)* Move videos to an offline location in obsidian. I will need to do this manually each week when I am renaming files. Will help a lot with file size. Can do with PDFs too. --- ## Make a page in the Compost Heap for [[Holistic Handwriting]] Rainbow nested shapes in lieu of handwriting. He really likes this collaborative approach. I draw a circle then he draws a circle inside. We did it with several shapes. ![[2024-08-30-Rainbow-Circle-Collab.jpeg]] ![[2024-09-02-Marker-Drawing.jpeg]] Drawing shapes with markers Drawing Pac Man shapes with letters. ![[2024-09-03-PacMan-Collab.jpeg]] ![[2024-09-03-Pac-Man-Collab.jpeg]] Handwriting wipe off books ![[2024-09-03-V.jpeg]] ![[2024-09-03-Handwriting.jpeg]] --- Return of the Shadow amended vs emended? --- Talk about book swap with WOZ https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/designer-and-artist-nicole-mclaughlin-on-detaching-from-the-permanence-of-your-work/ Pick some of these: https://www.instagram.com/nicolemclaughlin?igsh=MTBueXBqOHJ4YXBhcA== [Crash Course Art History](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMg4YXg6jCIDMbHUDaHDXXZ&si=F6ixpFT40UEMmqxm) Learn something new everyday. [Ladybugs emerge without their spots.](https://www.instagram.com/p/C_WIAvUs44z/?igsh=MW1zdWFqYnZkMHozdQ%3D%3D) (Fact check this.) If you’re not willing to learn to fail you’re not going to learn how to cook. [Julia Child](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-m7BASxLvj/?igsh=OXV2a3dzeW1nZmMz) (This applies to more than just cooking.) The Childlike Empress from The Neverending Story [is on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9nnwASOz6i/?igsh=cjlxNzhoYXlwaTBw). "[Artists fashioning costume’s from trash](https://www.instagram.com/p/C_a6pGIuYpS) in the capital city of Kinshasa, the capital city of The Republic of the Congo. This is done to highlight the injustices, conflicts and environmental issues facing the residents including the lack of drinking water, healthcare and other issues." --- # The Bystander, 1903-40. ZC.9.d.560 https://imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/155065/ https://www.instagram.com/p/C_LaWBCMBqa/?igsh=ZTlvNGxyd210MDl3&img_index=2 --- ## Podcasts --- # Add to Compost Heap [What is the difference between UK and US flour?](https://food52.com/hotline/51885-what-are-the-differences-between-us-and-uk-flour) Add Colgate Hum to home ed & toothbrushing accommodations page Add handwriting / drawing photos and ideas to compost heap and newsletter Add resource for artists [Guide to writing good artist bios.](https://magazine.artland.com/the-gallerys-guide-to-writing-good-artist-bios/) ![[Screencap-Baking-Muffins.jpeg]] --- > In Clive James’ _[Cultural Amnesia](https://geni.us/3zBWT)_, he wrote that one way you can distinguish the creative impulse from the destructive one is “by its propensity to increase the variety of the creative world rather than reduce it.” I’ve taken to asking of the cultural items I come across: _Does this increase the variety of the creative world or reduce it?_ > “Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” The fiction writer Benjamín Labatut wrote in _[Harper’s](https://harpers.org/archive/2024/07/the-gods-of-logic-benjamin-labatut-ai/)_ last month that _[Dune](https://geni.us/KvqxgJg)_ is a great text to read if you’re grappling with the implications of AI: “Herbert's books, with their strange mixture of past and present, remind us that there are many ways in which we can continue forward while preserving our humanity. Al is here already, but what we choose to do with it and what limits we agree to place on its development remain decisions to be made.” (Labatut’s own book about A.I., _[The Maniac](https://geni.us/d411)_, is one of the best things I read this year.) via [Austin Kleon](https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/wondrous-variety?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true) [This](https://ismy.blue/) reminded me of [this.](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-SdPgiNhhI/?igsh=MWIxM3ZncDZweWNmdw==) (footnote) [Not a sponsor, but you can order the postcard here.](https://www.presentandcorrect.com/products/cyanotype-postcard?_pos=7&_sid=66d4eccb6&_ss=r) --- Make a page for [[Sourdough for Neurodivergents]] ![[2024-09-06-Sourdough-Starter-Hand.jpeg]] ![[2024-09-06-Sourdough-STarter2.jpeg]] ![[2024-09-06-Sourdough-Starter.jpeg]] --- https://substack.com/@louisejhlucas/note/c-67220729?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=836c5 --- ## Find this ![[Temp-Find-This-Telescope-Image.png]] credited from this book https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/terresduciel00flam --- Add to recipes [Pumpkin French Toast](https://www.yummytoddlerfood.com/pumpkin-french-toast/) [Pumpkin Cake](https://www.yummytoddlerfood.com/easy-pumpkin-cake/) (compare sugar ratio to my pumpkin muffin recipe - maybe use up cake flour) [Simple Syrup](https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-simple-syrup-240337) [Ginger Syrup](https://www.thekitchn.com/ginger-syrup-recipe-23229969) [Fruit Simple Syrup](http://www.thisheartofmineblog.com/fruit-simple-syrups/) --- ![[SS-Header-Time-Travel-Gracie-Klumpp.jpg|Time Travel header features an illustrated TARDIS, swirling lines, and stars.]] # This time last year... I wrote [Please Stop Calling Yourself an HSP](https://sarahshotts.substack.com/p/please-stop-calling-yourself-an-hsp). This went viral and occasionally pops up to make the rounds again. --- *This is a ~~curated~~ collection of tidbits from my overgrown Compost Heap (or digital garden.) [You're welcome to rummage around, turn the heap, and see what you can find for yourself.*](https://publish.obsidian.md/sarahshotts) 🪱🐛🌱 --- ![[SS-Header-Support-Gracie-Klumpp.jpg|Ways to support header includes an illustrated white rabbit hopping into some wildflowers.]] _The Compost Heap is free to all. Thanks for exchanging your time and energy. 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