Ephemera Newsletter Iss. June.4

(Creativity and Motivation Weekly)

June 23,

Welcome to the Ephemera Newsletter, na makamaka! (Hawaiian for “friends”)

We lead with a question: can we produce compelling art being good, servicing relationships appropriately, business and social commitments, too, staying abreast of ourselves, including promises, growth, and additions to our being-ness? Can we transform and evolve and still make good poems, zingy lines, touching prose, compelling characters with a story? There’s a lesson about maturation in this letter, which involves acknowledging a period of experience and chaos evolving into a type of organized comfort replete with responsibility and measured wising. We’re thinking about creating art as two complimentary parts: a place of wild imagination and formless absorption of the new; and, and followed by, a place of structure and formed production of that more untamed space. Our artist and musician this week epitomize the push and pull of the creative life in many ways, that is the multifaceted artist Harif Guzman (Haculla) and the multi-dimensional Paul McCartney. We attempt more helpful balance with our 3s: zines, jobs, awards, books, and literary emblazonry. We admire and encourage your fire!

Ardor! Into the bubbling, squelching, inferno of our creative crucible we willingly wade—a dip, a bath, a week at sea—for it is summer, the triple point of our creative life where we’re all phases of writer in one: the riders of the wild, the craftspeople of the resulting ore, and producers keen on moving our product knowing yet we’re soon to return to the melting bath of potentiality. Ode to this process, to the burns that we purvey into style and voice; to the inferno of the cycle and those of us who find peace and comfort in the churning, smelting, and tempering. Ore! We become and unbecome. Thanks for your esteem. We hope you’ll distribute our innovations with writer friends, creatives, and thinkers. May the furnace of innovation rage as you like it.

We forge ahead by your intrigue: Tea or Books!

Mahalo! (Gratitude)

---

~We’re so happy you’re here!~

---

---

Featured Music: Paul McCartney