July Reading; “Working on Not Working”
Added 2024-07-24 23:05:13 +0000 UTCWelcome to this month’s reading list, deep from the “envisioning better work/life balance is difficult to save time for without work/life balance” collection.
How to Not Always Be Working: A Toolkit for Creativity and Radical Self-Care
Marlee Grace
I was gifted by this book by someone who knew me at the time for all of about 2 months, which was both a very thoughtful gesture and a devastating instance of being read like a children’s book (easily and at a glance, because I’m all pictures).
Ultimately, I class it in the general category of “reflections on a possible intersection between creative practice and sanity,” but I enjoy the writing prompts, and carrying it around as I work RELENTLESSLY on both the Undersigned Summer Tour and the Monument Lab Summit really made for some good prop comedy.
Related Readings
How to Not Always Be Working: w. Marlee Grace
WFMA (Courtney Balesteir)
As ever, I’m a big fan of doubling my intake on an author by reading them and hearing them interview. Here’s a fairly quick one that covers many of Marlee Grace’s bases. In conversation she skews more “motivational/self-help” than parts of the book, which I’m grateful to find provide questions and not always answers.
Mary Oliver
Or, do the literary equivalent of the “go touch grass” meme, which is to read Mary Oliver in any respect, but particularly her essays here about her time in nature. If you’re an indoor kid, her reflections on finding company in the works of Whitman and others may appeal, but I think Mary in any respect is a call to a sense of things larger than ourselves—or even (gasp), our to-do list.
Okay but seriously now, I’m going back to my to-do list
