#creativity and work

[jprowan]

Finding Time for Creativity When Your 9-to-5 Eats Your Soul

Let’s be honest: trying to make space for creativity when you work full-time feels a bit like trying to keep a candle lit during a wind tunnel test. You start with good intentions. You block out a Saturday afternoon for writing or sketching or whatever lights you up—and then the laundry glares at you, the dishes start multiplying, and suddenly it’s Monday again. I work full-time as an…

[anthonywilson]

UCU Strike Poems 11 -An Horatian Notion, by Thomas Lux

UCU Strike Poems 11 -An Horatian Notion, by Thomas Lux

An Horatian Notion

The thing gets made, gets built, and you’re the slave who rolls the log beneath the block, then another, then pushes the block, then pulls a log from the rear back to the front again and then again it goes beneath the block, and so on. It’s how a thing gets made – not because you’re sensitive, or you get genetic-lucky, or God says: Here’s a nice family, seven children, let’s…

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