Books:

• A Thousand Mornings: Poems, Mary Oliver

• Beauty: The Invisible Embrace, John Odonahue

• Bentos Sketchbook, John Berger

• Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, Elizabeth Gilbert

• Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott

• Devotion, Patti Smith

• Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving, Celeste Headlee

• Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age, Katherine May

• Everyday is a Poem, Everyday is a Poem, Jaqueline Suskin

• Feelings: A Story in Seasons, Manjit Thapp

• How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Jenny Odell

• Just Kids, Patti Smith

• Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Xaver Kappus

• Life in the Studio: Inspiration and Lessons on Creativity, Frances Palmer

• Life with Picasso, Françoise Gilot

• Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art, Mary Gabriel

• The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

• The Creative Habit, Twyla Tharp

• The Sense of Wonder, Rachel Carson

• Upstream, Mary Oliver

• Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, Cheryl Strayed

• Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times, Katherine Building the HouseMay

Essays:

• Building the House, Mary Oliver

• On Keeping a Notebook, Joan Didion

• Making Not Knowing, Ann Hamilton

Podcasts:

• Harnessing Passion, Drive, & Persistence for Lifelong Success, Huberman Lab

• How to Access Creativity, Huberman Lab

• How Meditation Works & Science-Based Effective Meditation, Huberman Lab

• How to Shape Your Identity & Goals, Huberman Lab

• How to Strengthen Your Work + Decide Where to Sell it, Art + Magic

• Magic, Everyday Mystery, and Getting Creative, On Being

• Mary Oliver - “i got saved by the beauty of the world”, On Being

• too old, too young, too busy, The Jealous Curator: ART FOR YOUR EARS

Playlists:

• studio, Lauren Sauder

A short list of artist residencies for immersion—I have not participated in all of them but those are next on my wish list.

• Casa Julfa, Montmorillon, France

• Joya AiR, Vélez Blanco, Spain

• Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Mass

• Numeroventi, Florence, Italy

• Villa Lena, Tuscany, Italy

• Window Place, Cedar, Michigan

A short list of mini-courses and masterminds for guidance.

• Foundations in Creative Practice, Paper Viewfinder, Lauren Sauder