From "How the Owner of a Nightclub and a Roller Rink Spends His Sundays/Varun Kataria owns various nightlife venues in Bushwick, Brooklyn. His Sundays usually begin with creative projects and end with his dog, Mushroom" (NYT)(I made that a free-access link because the photographs draw you into a particular world).
1. "Morning pages" — similar to but different from what I'm doing here on this blog. Before this blog, I'd use a sketchbook and a fountain pen. There were more doodles, fewer quotes.
2. "I didn’t read it... pushed on me by my therapist" — he's getting "connected with [his] creativity" and disconnected from that therapist.
3. "Mushroom" — name your dog Mushroom, and those people who just have to ask "What's his name?" — or "What's his name or her name (I don't want to misgender him... or her)?" — will forever be inquiring whether it refers to psychedelic mushrooms. Good conversation starter actually... probably.
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"[N]ame your dog Mushroom and ...people ...will forever be inquiring..." My impulse was to ask what he feeds the dog and what lighting conditions are like where he sleeps.
You do nice things for us. Thanks.
Who takes care of Mushroom when his human is tripping?
The NYT's is supposed to be a national newspaper. In fact, the other newspapers and the TV networks often copy their story selection and their POV. But its astounding how parchiol (sic) it is. Why am I supposed to care about a Brooklyn night club owner? And the underlying assumption that "we" all have therapists, own businesses, and cant read more than 1 page at a time?
Anyway, writing a single page or doodling when you first get up wont hurt you, but you're better off just going for a walk and talking/recording yourself on a cellphone.
Dollars to donuts he call's his dog "Mush"!
The Times, like the New Yorker used to say, is not for the Little Old Lady in Dubuque. People who live in NYC, people who wished they lived in NYC, and people whose spiritual home is in NYC are their national audience. Most of them probably throw out the Metro section unread, but they expect it to be there.
I do wonder why the therapists I read about are so much more intelligent and cultured (and hard-working and competent) than those I meet in real life.
We did that in Kindergarten but without the tea, and then we took naps.
The book that recommends "morning pages" -- writing freely about anything in a notebook as soon as you get up in the morning -- is "The Artist's Way" by Julia Cameron. She's a bit wackadoo, but the book has good suggestions for living a more creative life.
My friend had a dog that you could have named "mushroom," that dog always seemed to have a boner.
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