Field of Streams

Did you know that we’re taller in the morning? Gravity and lying down overnight has a lot do with it. Along with being taller, I am also more creative in the morning. It is my “creative tall” time. When do you feel like you are at the height of your creative powers? And when is it OK to be small? Let’s talk about it. 

Go behind the scenes and themes of this episode with a video and related links here: https://www.jumpinthestream.com/behind-the-streams-tall-order/

Related reading:
"You’re taller in the morning." - Interesting Facts article
https://interestingfacts.com/fact/youre-taller-in-the-morning/

This is an audio reading of the post “The tall order of the creative sweet spot” originally published on August 21, 2024. Additional creative inspirations can be found at that link. https://www.jumpinthestream.com/the-tall-order-of-the-creative-sweet/

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About Field of Streams
This podcast provides audio readings of The Stream newsletter's main feature. The Stream is written by Janeen McCrae, and aims to provide a weekly dose of personal essays and creative inspirations that'll get you revved up to 'make the thing.'

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Just because you think you have nothing - no ideas or creative inspiration - doesn't mean you do. We've all been there, but you can Turn nothing into something. This little missive is designed to keep you going on days when you open the brain pantry and it appears to be empty. 

This is an audio reading of the post "For Days When You Have Nothing." originally published on October 10, 2022. Additional creative inspirations can be found at that link. https://www.jumpinthestream.com/thing/

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About Field of Streams
This podcast provides audio readings of The Stream newsletter's main feature. The Stream is written by Janeen McCrae, and aims to provide a weekly dose of personal essays and creative inspirations that'll get you revved up to 'make the thing.'

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“Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.” David Lynch said that. He was a director, filmmaker, artist, painter, and I think above all else, a dreamer. R.I.P. David Lynch. 

Listen to the 1973 Kmart Reel-to-Reel here

Go behind the scenes of this episode (and get more David Lynch inspiration) with Behind the Streams: https://www.jumpinthestream.com/behind-the-streams-david-lynch/

Today’s episode was inspired by his existence on this weird ol’ plain we called life. This is an audio reading of the post “The Persistence of Donuts” originally published on January 20, 2025. Additional creative inspirations can be found at that link. https://www.jumpinthestream.com/the-persistence-of-donuts/

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About Field of Streams
This podcast provides audio readings of The Stream newsletter's main feature. The Stream is written by Janeen McCrae, and aims to provide a weekly dose of personal essays and creative inspirations that'll get you revved up to 'make the thing.'

Dip a toe into the stream and sign up for my free ramblings here 

What do you feel when you look at art? What do you feel when you... feel? Let's talk about it.

Related post: "Happy is a list of things felt strongly by this body."

This is an audio reading of the post “Just Feel It” originally published on September 26, 2022. Additional creative inspirations can be found at that link. https://www.jumpinthestream.com/feel/

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About Field of Streams
This podcast provides audio readings of The Stream newsletter's main feature. The Stream is written by Janeen McCrae, and aims to provide a weekly dose of personal essays and creative inspirations that'll get you revved up to 'make the thing.'

Dip a toe into the stream and sign up for my free ramblings here 

“Squirrels don’t find 80% of the nuts they hide.” This was the headline that inspired this week’s episode. In it, I equate collecting inspiration for your art as akin to a squirrel collection nuts. Art is nuts, and to make it, you must be a little but nutty, too. Welcome to Squirrel Math. Look for it at a university near you. 

Go behind the scenes of this episode as I discuss the themes and the subject of squirrels and the nuts they collect, here: https://www.jumpinthestream.com/behind-the-streams-squirrel/

This is an audio reading of the post "Introduction to Squirrel Math: Art is Nuts” originally published on August 07, 2024. Additional creative inspirations can be found at that link.
https://www.jumpinthestream.com/introduction-to-squirrel-math-art/

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About Field of Streams
This podcast provides audio readings of The Stream newsletter's main feature. The Stream is written by Janeen McCrae, and aims to provide a weekly dose of personal essays and creative inspirations that'll get you revved up to 'make the thing.'

Dip a toe into the stream and sign up for my free ramblings here 

“A mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.” That’s a line from Carl Sagan’s famous Pale Blue Dot text talking about Earth in the universe. This episode riffs of that, positing that we are, in a way, motes upon a mote. Seemingly insignificant, yet complex and full of potential—capable of so much. Listen in...

This is an audio reading of the post “Mote Work” originally published on September 19, 2022. Additional creative inspirations can be found at that link. https://www.jumpinthestream.com/mote/

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About Field of Streams
This podcast provides audio readings of The Stream newsletter's main feature. The Stream is written by Janeen McCrae, and aims to provide a weekly dose of personal essays and creative inspirations that'll get you revved up to 'make the thing.'

Dip a toe into the stream and sign up for my free ramblings here 

What does it mean to be happy? Where do you feel it in the body? Can you recognize it when you are happy? Let’s talk about the importance of being able to call back to happy when you need it. Smile lines are badges of honor!

Go behind the scenes of this episode and talk happiness with this BTS video, here:
https://www.jumpinthestream.com/behind-the-streams-happy/

This is an audio reading of the post “Happy is a list of things felt strongly by this body” originally published on November 21, 2024. Additional creative inspirations can be found at that link.
https://www.jumpinthestream.com/happy/

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About Field of Streams
This podcast provides audio readings of The Stream newsletter's main feature. The Stream is written by Janeen McCrae, and aims to provide a weekly dose of personal essays and creative inspirations that'll get you revved up to 'make the thing.'

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Did you know that purple does not exist? It is a non-spectral color—not visible on the light spectrum—and so is invented on the spot by your brain. “Red plus blue but not green.” Today, we talk about how amazing your brain is, and that if it can invent a color out of thin air, just imagine what else you can make it do. 

Related Links

Watch the Behind the Scenes video on this post where I talk about purple, the brain, and some background on the post I just read to you.
https://www.jumpinthestream.com/behind-the-streams-purple/

Purple Isn’t Real | Slice of Science
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQt5B1GsTsg

This is an audio reading of the post "Red plus blue but not Green " originally published on September 18, 2024. Additional creative inspirations can be found at that link.
https://www.jumpinthestream.com/red-plus-blue-but-not-green/

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About Field of Streams
This podcast provides audio readings of The Stream newsletter's main feature. The Stream is written by Janeen McCrae, and aims to provide a weekly dose of personal essays and creative inspirations that'll get you revved up to 'make the thing.'

Dip a toe into the stream and sign up for my free ramblings here 

Feel like you're on the wrong path in life? Is it too late to change direction? In this episode, I talk about how the concept of ‘desire paths’ can be applied to life. 

Want to learn more about desire paths? Go behind-the-scenes of this episode here.
https://www.jumpinthestream.com/behind-the-streams-desire-paths/

Desire Path Reddit Group
https://www.reddit.com/r/DesirePath/

This is an audio reading of the post "Go Your Own Way" originally published on October 7, 2024. Additional creative inspirations can be found at that link.
https://www.jumpinthestream.com/desire/

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About Field of Streams
This podcast provides audio readings of The Stream newsletter's main feature. The Stream is written by Janeen McCrae, and aims to provide a weekly dose of personal essays and creative inspirations that'll get you revved up to 'make the thing.'

Dip a toe into the stream and sign up for my free ramblings here 

Roosters are the absolute kings of self-promotion. We could learn a lot from them. If only there were some kind of seminar that we could attend where a rooster – nature’s megaphone – would share his secrets? Welcome to the rooster equivalent to a Ted Talk on how to promote yourself using.

Go Behind the Scenes of this episode in this video. https://www.jumpinthestream.com/behind-the-streams-rooster/

This is an audio reading of the post '"Everything I know about Marketing' as told by a Rooster" originally published on July 10, 2024. Additional creative inspirations can be found at that link.
https://www.jumpinthestream.com/everything-i-know-about-marketing/

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About Field of Streams
This podcast provides audio readings of The Stream newsletter's main feature. The Stream is written by Janeen McCrae, and aims to provide a weekly dose of personal essays and creative inspirations that'll get you revved up to 'make the thing.'

Dip a toe into the stream and sign up for my free ramblings here