Monthly Archives: July 2010

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  Envy, in 5 Minutes

  Posted on July 29, 2010 by Kat French in real life

  I wanted to post something today, and unfortunately, I only have five minutes. So I think I will riff on the subject of envy. I’m continually surprised at the level of envy I feel, when I pull my attention inward and consciously notice where my thoughts are. Another surprise? That 9 times out of 10, [...]

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  Presence

  Posted on July 23, 2010 by Kat French in managing attention, real life

  “I’m George McFly. I’m your density.” We all get a little distracted from time to time. It’s not usually a big deal. In fact, a little distraction every now and then can lead to some creative breakthroughs. Fiber artist White Feather wrote a good article about this on Thoughtwrestling, another blog I where I sometimes [...]

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  Thread

  Posted on July 21, 2010 by Kat French in managing attention, real life

  I love crafts and sculpture. Particularly fiber arts. I like making useful, beautiful things. I hadn’t done much creative craft work in a really long time, though, because my craft supplies have been choked and buried under a bunch of supplies I inherited (aka “couldn’t let go of”) when my mom and grandma passed on. [...]

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  Interruption

  Posted on July 15, 2010 by Kat French in real life

  I had a plan for Wednesday at work. It didn’t really work out. It was all for the best, really. The other direction I ended up getting pulled in, the other stuff I ended up doing is probably going to pay better dividends for me, my employer and my clients in the long run. But [...]

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  Addition

  Posted on July 14, 2010 by Kat French in managing attention

  Thus far, my July has been all about subtraction. First, I declared Bandwidth Bankruptcy. I declared a cease and desist on all personal projects in process. I took nine days off work, while my husband and kids went out of town without me, and spent most of it clearing the almost all the clutter out [...]

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  Closets

  Posted on July 13, 2010 by Kat French in managing attention, story & craft

  I spent an unusual amount of time on Sunday staring into my closets. Before last week’s vacation, I considered using my abundant free time sans job, husband and kids creating content. I briefly entertained the idea of churning out stories, blog posts, videos and more of the digital ephemera that seems to represent my creative [...]

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