While many of us assume emotions like happiness are the best feelings to evoke in advertising, it is not the case. It's actually energy (positive or
A Prompt for Nature Knowledge
Some days I walk through the woods and wonder "what is nature telling me today?" The answers are always simple. Nature tells me that old
Efficiency: a dangerous game
By design it benefits only a few. Oh my goodness have I loved efficiency. I drank the Koolaid early, and developed my own flavors of
Damn, I’m sorry
... for my part in the debacle that is the Internet, so I'm writing long form as penance. Below is this maker's overview of the web's history and
Terms of Endearment – Acceptance
This is a Terms of Endearment (TOE) post. These are words that keep coming up that I find myself re-defining for my own relief, amusement, and
Take back the alphabet & re-write your life
How work with the most basic building blocks in order to elevate your communication. I've always seen the alphabet as a beautiful grouping of
Making an oracle by machine
Get a random reading at bottom of this page. Randomness is the name, and divination is the game. ~Playing The Fool1 I just added a
What are your Grace Goals today?
It’s Sunday morning in America1 and the texts from family & friends are coming in. “How can we get through?”“I’m freaking out inside.”“It’s
E=mc² – a reason to make art
A genius creation that exists only inside our minds can't hold a candle to the energy that exists in even the tiniest bit of stuff you make. I
The Constitution of US
In case you hadn't heard, The United States Constitution was removed from The White House Website sometime within the past 24 hours. All that's left
Gravity & the living force of psychological pressure
A few months back, I lay in my bed around 3 in the morning, watching the shadows of the branches crawling across the ceiling. The craggy shapes were
Artful Advertising
If you lay down your META or Google targeted ad sets like blankets of loveliness across the web– regardless of your product, service or event – your
7 | 8 Reflections
alphabets, art, hospitality, & coverings Dear Lisa,This morning I woke up naturally, later than usual and in a warm and dark and quiet place,
Surveillance is a feeling
And since it has no love in it, it doesn't feel good: a note to employers in a digital age. "Peering In" Author's View of Artist Peter
writing grief | morning person
I've been a morning person ever since I stopped waiting tables. Even then, I was still a morning person, but sometimes spent extra time in bed feeling
Participate in a Public | Digital Search Project
I stole this post, screenshots of my own images, and public research project back from my IG account, where the winners of original physical art will
Orienting a Day
I love the term orientation. It's connected to my past and my future. And now all at once. The days I choose to orient around "love" or "hope,"
Mission: Good Will Ambassador
Writing a mission statement, and how waiting tables is as fine an ambassadorship as any outside post. Demystifying entity-speak: Mission &
Using middots (and em dashes) in marketing copy
The middot can look like a "bullet," but it is not. It can be helpful in marketing when you need to represent an address in a single line and don't
Tree Hugging Humour, Lychee Trees & Ways of Approach
I need to make this quick, and I'm going for the British spelling to captivate your interest. I've got shopping to do and laundry, maybe even can get
Deep Impact of words, asteroids, and my dad
Or, taking a NASA mission personally Thanks NASA–Love me a fun 404 error.1 I have to admit, when The Deep Impact Mission2 ran an
Artist’s Confidential
AKA pulling apart a piece of art, with some web-weaving via inappropriate footnoting. This entire piece is about a rapidly made Instagram reel
Naming, Angels, and Missing Sisters
Can anyone truly see what's missing? It’s a paradoxical view. What's in a name? One of my teachers told me folks with the last name DeAngelis
What makes any given website run
I just had to explain this to a client. I figure you may need to know this too if you have a domain name and website hosting and don't want to be
project project & on demand on you
This is about putting the marketing cart before the horse with Human Design, and it apparently working.1 Oh yes, and moonlighting...And examining
Gail Force
Gail lived with us for several months when I was five years old. Gail was 15 years old at the time, an avid 1970s free spirit, a pot smoker, and
Titles First (and foremost?)
I saw a delightful and giddily relaxed David Bowie1 in an old video clip saying something so true: artists are more comfortable describing their
Skipping Stones
This is shear poetrytransparent like the way I express myself these daysand try to hear you too. Transparency means invisible. This is good on
State the thing | Stare at the thing | Stair the thing
How positively-framed statements make matter & how to serve wisely within your own makers way. After Tim Snyder wrote a book On Tyranny1,
The Mess
I love my mess. Truly. Just like I loved it in my old Dodge Aspen with cigarette butts falling out of the ashtray onto cassette carriers filled with
A Burning Bridge to Now-here
My favorite candle sits on my dining room table. It's inside opaque black glass and sits on its own wooden cover like a little pedestal. I refer to
Early Earnings, Archetypes,and Your Personal Way to Wealth
(with an obsessive case study in American Politics) The archetypes1 represented in your earliest "receptive" associations are a powerful way
Through Lines, Titles, & Hiding While Seeking
Thoughts on being an artist and privacy. As an artist who expresses herself through the medium of digital construction, I'd like to introduce
Ordinary Abortion Story
If you know me at all, you know I try to let my work speak for itself, and I don’t like to reveal myself clearly online. It’s scary for me to be 'out
What is God?
I asked my 11 year old son on our walk this morning, after a long ramble through the woods where we talked about the philosophy of cross country
The Name of the Game
Ever wake up with a song in your mind for no apparent reason? Today was one of those, and here it is by ABBA. The song couldn't be more on target with
Protected: when ‘us’ turns 20
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Hosting Hos: an explainer
In my professional life, I've been one heck of a website ho. Stewarding website after website, using my pro tools and licenses and caring for dozens
10 minutes to problemlessness
I have 10 minutes to write this post. My goal is to only share truth, and that which helps set people free. This morning I discovered a bevy of
