The Best Things in my Brain, August 2025
I’ve always been a person who loves to learn and find new things and share them with others, but these things don’t always warrant a full blog or social media post. So I thought I’d play around with offering a short and sweet post on the best things I learned, read, heard, or saw recently. This will run once a month on a week I’m not scheduled to post a longer blog.
My links this month are sans photos so as a bonus here are a couple photos of my overwhelmingly abundant pollinator garden, featuring coneflowers, cardinal flowers, and sweet Black-eyed Susans. Across the walkway I also have some swamp milkweed for the Monarch butterflies, of which we’ve seen several this year, so it seems like it’s working!
Best Thing in my Brain, Craft Edition:
The Craft Industry Alliance website recently featured an article on The Sewing Machine Project, an organization that provides new and refurbished sewing machines to groups teaching sewing for economic or therapeutic purposes around the US. I’m always struck by the creative ways crafters find to build community through crafting!
(A side note, if you’re interested in the craft industry, the Craft Industry Alliance newsletter is a great way to stay on top of what’s happening all the way from the international corporation level down to the small local business level, and you don’t have to be a member to receive the newsletter!)
Best Thing in my Brain, Non-Craft Edition:
I’ve been sending pitches for a number of editing and graphic design freelance jobs lately and the law of averages means I’ve been getting turned down for most of them. I’ve spent a lifetime in various creative endeavors so rejection letters/emails are not new to me but I still found this article from Narratively Academy where writers discuss how to keep going after a rejection notice to be a timely and helpful pep talk.
What’s the best thing currently in your brain?
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