Author: joshua chamberlain
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hustlin’
Austin Kleon on the hustle: “I made poetry at night not because it was a side hustle, but because it was keeping me alive, ya know? It was keeping me from hating my life.” This video is a fun companion piece to John Cragie’s “Hustlin‘” off his new record, Asterisk…
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an open letter about an election
As we in the United States continue to grapple with the impact of our last presidential administration, I thought I’d share something personal. Prior to the 2020 Election, I wanted to engage in dialogue with people whose opinions were different from mine. Many of extended family and my parents’ friends–people…
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on the go
Between August of 2015 and September of 2018, I moved ten times. From my childhood home to my first apartment, from a rundown house with squirrels in the walls to a rented room in a lake house, from a commune in Cincinnati to a cabin in the middle of a…
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within and without
I’ve been in a men’s book club for about two years now. This time last year, we read Parker J. Palmer’s A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life. Much of the book is spent exploring how to draw out one’s soul in a world of compartmentalization. Palmer makes…
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my favorite thing about Weezer
For the second time in a row, Weezer announced an album, then put out something entirely different. After 2016’s The White Album. the band’s frontman, Rivers Cuomo, announced the band was going to release a follow-up entitled The Black Album. But as they started the recording process, Rivers changed his…
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what happens?
Oftentimes, when I’m writing, it’s easy to lose sight of the important questions. I get wrapped up in my ideas, my self-prescribed brilliance, my ego. By holding too tight to what I’m making, I prevent the story from becoming what it wants to be. With storytelling, the simplest question is…
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the face of rejection
I’m recently submitted a few applications to grad schools. I got my first rejection yesterday. When talking with an old friend last night, he said, “What else can you do in the face of rejection but sing?” He immediately brought up Amy Grant’s “Hopes Set High,” one of the songbook…
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point of entry
The other day, I had a conversation about what it’s like to live in Los Angeles. The man I was talking to said he thought LA was too big. “I haven’t spent much time there, but I wouldn’t even know where to begin,” he said. “If I was going to…
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where we come from
In her episode of Abstract: The Art of Design, Es Devlin makes the claim that, “the systems and influences of one’s childhood are inescapable.” While peering down on a model of her hometown, she says, “My work is as much a reaction against this as it is continuing to perpetuate…
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why editing is important
A few years ago, I was working on a film set. I started a conversation with one of the camera operators, who claimed that editing is one of the most useful skills a person can possess. The editor is responsible for putting the whole film together. As this camera operator…
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