Tend the Flame

Hello My Friends —

This episode was unexpected and dropped into my lap — my favorite way for us to connect; it’s like air to a flame.

* Did you know you have more than 3,000 receptors in your fingertips?

* True or false: Science has combined human tissue with AI?

* Last, do you think your answers are within or sourced outside or a combination?

Alright — you are ready for this week’s episode.

☕️ Enjoy it and let me know your thoughts in the comments. It will help inform where the next episode takes us.

Let’s stay curious about ourselves this week,

Keep Shining,

Kate

P.S. Link referenced in episode below with an additional link to a YouTube on the human hand.

“Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us.” — Mary Oliver

I highly recommend watching the video below, but first I learned a new term — wetware. Do you know it? I didn’t; I headed on over to a non-AI source on the Internet and pulled screenshots for you on the definition. Read them over before clicking on the YouTube below.

Here is another definition from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wetware

Here is the reference video from the podcast on the marriage of human cells & technology:

Curious about the nerves in your hand? Watch this:

And for our humanity — Mary Oliver writing a poem on Franz Marc’s Blue Horses

Image citation: https://www.franzmarc.org/The-Tower-of-Blue-Horses.jsp

Franz Marc’s Blue Horses, by Mary Oliver

I step into the painting of the four blue horses.I am not even surprised that I can do this.

One of the horses walks towards me.His blue nose noses me lightly. I put my armover his blue mane, not holding on, justcommingling.He allows me my pleasure.Franz Marc died a young man, shrapnel in his brain.I would rather die than try to explain to the blue horseswhat war is.They would either faint in horror, or simplyfind it impossible to believe.I do not know how to thank you, Franz Marc.Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually.Maybe the desire to make something beautifulis the piece of God that is inside each of us.Now all four horses have come closer,are bending their faces toward meas if they have secrets to tell.I don’t expect them to speak, and they don’t.If being so beautiful isn’t enough, whatcould they possibly say?​

Feed Your 🧠: Learn More About the Artist Franz Marc and how he created beauty against all odds

In the bleak winter of 1916, in the thickest darkness of World War I, several enormous canvases dappled in pointillist patterns of color appeared across the French countryside, …The painted tarps were military camouflage, designed to conceal artillery from aerial observation — the work of the young German painter, printmaker, and Expressionist pioneer Franz Marc (February 8, 1880–March 4, 1916), who had devoted himself to parting the veil of appearances with art in order to “look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.”

🔗 https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/09/08/franz-marc/

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Hello, hello. I have a favor.

I would love to know your thoughts on this question— is it important to be human? And — what does that even mean? Post your comments below.

In this episode we talk about:

* Chat GPT recommending baseball bats

* The most likely answer to : What do you want?

* Bottom lines without factoring in the human experience

* And why we do well when we Gather.

Drop your comments below — no 🤖here.

See you soon and stay 🔥✨ you beautiful soul,

Kate

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Hello hello —

Today’s podcast is part reflection and part story-telling thanks to the natural world, always providing us clues to the answers we seek.

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” — John Muir

This week we look at:

* The habit of saying it’s fine — before checking in if the is true.

* Our first reaction to that which we don’t know — oh, poor confused caterpillar…

* What happens when infiltrators are removed with boundaries — oh, not so innocent caterpillars.

* What we can do now for ourselves to glow-up and nurture our own roots — or wings.

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See you back here soon.

With love,

Kate

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Welcome back to the Tend the Flame podcast.

We've been on a bit of a sabbatical for the summer.

This podcast is a place for you to tend the internal flame, the one of

creativity, divinity, and what gives you your spark. Thank you so much for tuning in.

🐦‍⬛ We're going to talk about why all of this talk about birds, nature,

what the invitation can be that you can bring into your own life.

More soon.

With big love,

Kate

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Hello Creatives!

We are heading into our Summer Scheduling where we slow down on the recording a bit and speed up on our creating!

Place your attention on what you want to nourish, do it enough and you may start to notice resistance. You may feel the twinge of how and why it can’t, but times are changing in front of us and you are here — in this life, and on this page because you have something to share.

Time to create it.

Thanks for tuning in!Every up level requires something of us. If you are looking for someone to help navigate the potential you know you are walking into — schedule a connection call — that’s a quick chat to ensure a good fit. Another person to hear you, see what is just outside your periphery and echo back your ideas can make such a big, big difference - -between someday and now.

Kate’s Schedule: 🔗katebrentoninspires

Also keep your eyes peeled for a summer offering to Create more than we Consume. It’s for women.

Xo

Kate

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“The inspiration you seek is already within you. Be silent and listen.” - Rumi

Hello Creatives - -

This episode evolved from a talk I gave for the Inspire Create Manifest Soulful you retreat this year. It is a topic that is evermore on my mind: that the simple joys of being human are what leads us to our solutions.

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1:06 Time Magazine article declares modern exhaustion from an unsustainable lifestyle.

4:31 We are deciding to open our eyes to what is unsustainable

5:21 David Whyte seeks counsel and the antidote is whole-heartedness

7:48 A quick way to get mind out of overwhelm

Remember you are designed to create not consume.

Share your joy because rising tides, raise all ships,

Kate

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Curious about the Time Article? https://time.com/6694092/exhaustion-increasing-causes-essay/

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Hello Fellow Creative -

This week’s Sunday stack is short and sweet, and builds on our last episode.

Here we talk about algorithms versus relationships, likes versus support, and tech in comparison to Nature, who loves you.

Did you know that trees emit a low-key, near infrared light, that they don’t use?

I recently learned that blue light, like that editing from our screens and computers is unfiltered and gets ushered right into our retina. I never thought about that before. I did use to explain to students that reading or even listening to something can you the speed to decide if it sounded true, whereas imagery, flashes and gets into our system and if we are paying attention, we then question it.

The very nature of consciousness seems to becoming more mainstream in ever-growing circles. When I asked the Internet (I am citing my sources here) about thinking of something and then seeing its ads, it answered very cleverly. It said :

So what about those times when you just think about something, and then you see an ad?

It can be difficult to wrap your head around, but it likely is less of a coincidence than you think. Any piece of information Facebook picked up (even just semi-related to the thought), either before or after your thought, could have led to the ad being served.

Every move you make online fuels Facebook’s algorithm. Engaging with a post, liking a person’s photo, or even using your Facebook account to sign in to another online service are all examples of this.

Essentially, a complex algorithm is “listening” to us, just not using microphones.

* www.mcnuttpartners.com/why-we-see-digital-ads-after-talking-about-something/January 25, 2021 Digital Marketing / Marketing and Advertising

Not sure that makes me feel better; it’s kinda like a pat on the head, saying it’s way worse than you can consider. In the same breath, there is a mockery of the Quantum Physics and the idea that where our focus goes, energy grows - meaning like often attracts like and such. Okay maybe not enough to explain much, but that is not the goal here. The goal is to question and consider. I’d toss in the idea of when you find out a shop, or a trail, had been in your neighborhood and you never, ever noticed it before. What changed that made the opportunity available to your perception?

To note, I don’t think the universe is random, nor do I think it is for humans to control. I do think a bit of personal effort to build one’s life, can go a very long way. A way, indeed that can be upturned, but built again, perhaps even with a new found wisdom. What we say and how we say it matters. I am beginning to learn it may even matter more than I’d wish.

Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

This week’s focus is Notice & Nourish. Enjoy the invitation and maybe notice what you notice as you go about your days. I am still enjoying my bounty from the harvest.

See you back here next week on Tend the Flame

📚🔗Florence Scovel Shinn On the Power of the Spoken Word

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Hello Creative Friend —

May this episode find you enjoying all the available good. Happy Mother’s Day no matter how that phrase lands, in what season you are in, and what breath you are in-taking be one of beauty.

🌿 This Pod-chat Excerpt is honoring Nettle, Boundaries & Pacing:

You could interpret obstacles as denial, as opposed to

thresholds of discernment. I think Nettle is a phenomenal teacher of discernment.

I am asking you and to coddle your eyes and take them off of a blue screen and turn them towards a blue sky this week.

Notice what you notice.

📍Share what you notice in the comments so that we can start conversations that flood our fields and the algorithm of our daily life about people noticing catbirds and, strawberries, and stinging nettle and children carrying dandelions and what takes our energy and what reciprocates our energy.

🌿 Look for signs of life offering you discernment, so that there is more reciprocity

because reciprocity also extends our capacity and we need people like you.

Yes, you, at the full capacity.

Thank you for expanding the flowering of this flame 🔥

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Hello, It’s May!

Thank you to all the new and returning subscribers. If you haven’t hit up some stars for us on Spotify, would you do so now? 🔗 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It is tremendously helpful. Thanks!

If you are new here, welcome, welcome & take a look around.This podcast is here to lift up your eyes and your mind to start your week off tending to your inner flame — illuminating the best week possible. The FDA won’t let us make any claims of efficacy, but we do know we are what we eat & intake and we are all about the highest vibes possible here. Even when it’s hard, while still being authentic. Feel the feels. Move the body. Take in some light and live.

If you have not filled out our welcome note yet, would you? It only takes a moment:

A big thank you to all of you choosing to be here and choosing to live the examined life.

In this week’s podcast I am ASKING you a question and we are spending May cultivating our relationship and conversation with Nature.

Why?

Because the more uncertain the world, the more solace we gather from the long living truths around us. Fades and fears come and go, but what we access from direct experience, from real felt living, whether the laugh of a friend, or the smell of lavender, can never be taken away.

Wait til next week when I tell you about getting reprimanded by Nettle. It was great, and I was left unstung.

Enjoy your week & the podcast and I will see you back here very soon.

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They clamour and fight, they doubt and despair, they know no endto their wrangling.Let your life come amongst them like a flame of light, mychild, unflickering and pure, and delight them into silence.

- Rabindranath Tagore

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Podcast Snippet:

Writing is an alchemy.

It can give witness to something that has no business being witnessed by a human.

You know what I mean?

Maybe there's a situation that it's the time has passed that you can have the

conversation with the person,

but you can write it out.

And if visualization makes the body feel the truth of something being achieved,

then writing it out can give voice to,

to silence that needs to be broken, ideas that need to be shared.

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Hello Creative One —

Thank you for tuning in and I trust you will find 2 good things out of this episode. I wished I had remembered to recommend better books at the end. Do you have suggestions? Pop them in the comments. After the fact, I thought of this one and this one. I need to read more fiction — so I am really open to recommendations.

Enjoy the podcast. And for our journals, our morning masters, get your pen, your notebook and your favorite mug ready for the morning.

Until then,

Kate

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