@alexleviton
How does our creativity influence how we perceive the world? Writing and books: creativity, travel, humor, Lonely Planet. Trauma-informed writing therapy. Berkeley J School. ASL. Former Ed Dir. Board games at @thirdlayergames
My PT gave me non-invasive exercises. It took a little practice, but my Fitbit’s heart rate monitor was my guide.
The easiest one: Head facing straight, lace your fingers behind your head. ‘Stretch’ your eyes to the right until you yawn. Switch sides; ditto. Vagus happy.
Bob Ross painting happy trees with a live squirrel in his pocket
We’d like to let you know that:
A) There is a Bob Ross Channel
B) Our emergency vet office plays it exclusively
C) Bob Ross once shot an episode with a squirrel in his pocket
Trump is Trump. That we VOTED for Trump is about us.
So we study the fuck out of GamerGate, Cambridge Analytica and Russian troll farms sowing discontent. Malignant narcissism and sociopathy learned how to best operate in these conditions. We study what makes the conditions.
We made a thing! It’s about connection and perception and playfully seeing the world through someone else’s eyes. (Which seems kinda necessary right now.)
We could use some help spreading the word.
To every writer, artist & [insert your creative thing here] who feels they maybe shouldn't be posting stuff that *isn't* 'How Do We Stop The Fascists' right now:
One of the tools of Evil People is hopelessness - where everyone's so exhausted they forget what Better looks like.
Please remind them.
Yup. Hopelessness feels like a years-long guillotine. Outrage is good, necessary, motivating. But joy? Connection? Curiosity? Don’t be taking that away — or our humanity — ye bastards. Thanks for the reminder, Creative People. ☺️
Low-key obsessed with layers of meaning these days.
When life gets hard, I catch myself (and everyone else, it seems) gravitating to the first layer: comfort *and* outrage.
But man. The third layer is where the good shit is.
My partner was amazing. I was laughably terrible! 😆 I like games where the points matter.
Whoaaaa
I love Offshoots! We just played it at OrcaCon. It’s counterintuitively calming. 🧘
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My hometown! Is that near Portuguese Bend? The land that slowly falls into the sea (or so my mom said had been the native name for the area).
When you were in … a mood the last time you drove, and you gently alight into your car the next time. To the Sex Pistols’ Bodies blaring at full volume.
Anarchist 70s punk for the win.
A doctorate in physical therapy costs over $100,000. New loan cap is $100,000 lifetime. Same problem for occupational therapists and social workers. These rules punish students pursuing essential health care careers.
Watching six-part cult documentaries: Man, cults are always start out so great … until the end of the second episode.
‘We all raised our kids and grew organic veggies. Then to appease the founder/get into the right heaven, my grandma murdered and ate this guy.’
A roughly knit dish square done by a beginner, with uneven edges and several mistakes.
Part of why I wanted to make board games is so people can play with creativity before there are any stakes. The creative process is far messier than society allows.
#knitters: Purling gets easier, right?
Thank you so much for sharing! 💗 Ann’s poetry is so lyrical and beautiful. This one is especially moving, on so many levels. (A ladybug landed on my arm at my grandmother’s burial at sea — a mile from shore.)
Such a great museum! Plus: If you have a chance to eat at the cafe, it's one of my favorite restaurants in Durham. Nom nom nom.
Holy crap! I mean, he is kind of the Pauly Shore of government ...
What everyone has shared (Mt St Helens!), but hands-down, by far my favorite: University of Arizona and their work on Biosphere 2. biosphere2.org
Whoaaa. Coincidentally, I am literally a travel writer for the region around Sequim.
Word.
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There’s going through the highs and lows of your messy, personal, gorgeous human existence to connect with other humans via the tin-can phone line of your soul's creative expression..
And then: there's AI art.
Ahem.
From @theoatmeal.bsky.social
theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
So. Good. I love how our greatest philosophers these days are in standup, The Onion or comics. (Plus, he lives on our island!)
Haha. Hee-larious typo. Facing his *mortality*!
If he’s facing his morality and envisioning the planet without him, maybe he just wants to take a bunch of us with him. Giving off some serious pharaoh vibes.
Aww. 😊 I do see the family resemblance. 💛 (inside and out; Janna is one of the good ones)
It’s a good life tip: When the universe gives you more color, you gotta do the color. Because, man; color is rarer than you’d expect.
It’s a good life tip: When the universe gives you more color, you gotta do the color. Because, man; color is rarer than it should be.
SNL needs to do a sketch with, like, Manifest Abundance folks conducting a seminar on the power of positive thinking in war zone rubble.
This just happened to be the card section I photographed (weirdness accidental). What else would you call the intangible/emotion category (machete will move, I promise!). #psychology or #neuroscience peeps: Interoception? Internal? Personal?