November 2024 booklet

Here are the titles and brief descriptions from this month's booklet.

• Make Time, Make Space: Explores the author's transition to full-time work after seven years and the challenge of maintaining a writing practice while balancing new responsibilities. Emphasizes the importance of discipline and intentional time management.
• The Allure of Endless Noise: Examines our compulsion toward constant stimulation through media, music, and technology, and contrasts it with the value of silence and presence. Reflects on the difficulty of sitting with emptiness.
• People Suck: A candid reflection on heartbreak after a relationship ending, examining the tension between becoming bitter and maintaining trust in others. Questions how to trust someone's word and how to respect others despite disappointment.
• People of Clay: A short poem about human malleability and connection, using clay as a metaphor for how we impact and leave impressions on each other through relationships.
• Mind Seal: Contrasts AI-generated content with human writing, arguing that human-created works contain a distinctive consciousness or "mind seal" that AI cannot replicate. Celebrates the unique "footprint" each writer leaves.
• To Create: A five-part guide to creativity that encourages engaging with different time scales, softening boundaries between fields of knowledge, pursuing rigor, going deep, and receiving the world through patient waiting.
• Sharing Dysfunction: Reflects on the author's surprise that their most vulnerable and personal writing connects with readers more than intellectual content, exploring how self-disclosure creates space for others to experience themselves.
• On Leadership: Articulates a vision of leadership that balances clear personal convictions with openness to others, describing vision as a "shared myth" that beckons people toward something greater than what currently exists.
• On Certainty: A poem about the tension between self-reliance and vulnerability, expressing determination to continue risking openness despite past hurts in order to fulfill the desire to belong.