“The Creative Act: A Way of Being” by Rick Rubin is a compilation of short essays on the creative way of being, the manifestation of creativity itself, and how we, as creatives, can live in harmony with creativity’s “timetable”, as well as the importance of making great art for art's sake.

Rubin’s essays read more as a huge collection of short/mini essays written in small pockets of time and struck inspiration on the subject of creativity, rather than all of them leaning towards a singular overarching idea about creativity. 

During the early stages of social distancing in the pandemic, I had a lot of time to be able to explore YouTube a lot more and I was so happy to be able to discover more YouTubers creating slow and sustainable fashion content. With fast fashion’s domination, the counter slow fashion movement is quickly building momentum and appears to not be going anywhere anytime soon. As someone who has always had a slow fashion approach to my style, I am happy to have found YouTube content that I can personally resonate with

As a writer and a poet, I can usually be caught in a coffee shop whenever I’m in a writing funk and need to be somewhere that isn’t the desk in my room. A coffee, a pen, and a notebook with some nice ambience is what I need to get out of a rut and need to focus sometimes. If you’re in the OC area, here are some of the coffee shops I frequent to write or study at.