Kermit the Frog is a sibyl
“Someday we’ll find it / the rainbow connection / the lovers, the dreamers, and me.”
That lil green dude knew what’s up: sometimes you just gotta search around a bit to find creative inspiration — and for me, it falls far from the binary, dichotomous nature of creative routines, existing more closely to the sublime, the uncertain, the rainbow-bright:
The ways creative work gets done are always unpredictable, demanding room to roam, refusing schedules and systems. They cannot be reduced to replicable formulas.
— Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
So in episode 6, I’m serving up some spicy hot takes about routines v. rituals + negative self-talk v. negative capability (yes, that’s right; we’re down to clown with John Keats!), and sharing a few things that are inspiring me right now, from cool science facts to Grammys fashion to intense and beautiful musings from poet Saeed Jones.
Hawt Linx 4 U, aka, all the stuff I mentioned in the pod <3
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
Off Book podcast & Play It By Ear | Improv musical shows!
Holly is the GOAT | Phenotypic plasticity
Harold the Holy Harlequin | Grammys fashion 2023
Rachel Maksy: Living Disco Ball | YouTube maker
Saeed Jones Reads Deborah Digges | New Yorker Poetry Podcast on Apple
xx, aa
Image credits (clockwise from top left): Curated Rainbow Room by Ken Kelleher (@anchorball); Sheep Chairs by Fraincois-Xavier Lalanne (via @gilberkann); image lost to the sands of time & my dumb a** not bookmarking it on IG; Kermit singing “The Rainbow Connection” in The Muppet Movie (don’t come for me, Disney).
