The beauty in a disrupted rhythm, a mnml digest
A curated journey through five articles, posts and podcasts that are speaking to me this week. Pulled widely from a week’s worth of reading. Shared in ten sentences or fewer. A fun means of reflecting on the blogs I regularly read in a way that spreads the link love.
My reading this week has me asking: how the discomfort of trying something new is a sign that I’m growing. Conceptual discomfort, and feeling jarred out of my normal rhythm, is evidence I can convert something wrong into something better.
Unmoored (From the Pen Cup). Bright new ideas grow from conceptual discomfort — like when you forget your pens at home and need to create a new daily carry on the spot.
Reading, Creative Friendship, and developing friendship, beauty, goodness, truth, and freedom (The Society Pages). There is power in switching an “or” to an “and” in those conceptually uncomfortable moments.
Ink Samples Saved Me a Bundle (An Inkophile’s Blog). I appreciate ink samples, too. A low-risk way to experiment with new-to-me inks.
They tricked us. (CJ Chilvers). Because, after all, it’s not which pens or inks I own, but how I use them together.
19th Century ChatGPT? A Book of Sample Letters for Common Business and Social Situations (Analog Office). And, importantly, the old is often fertile ground from which to grow those bright new ideas.
