There’s a stubborn idea that good creative work requires special circumstances. This episode questions that assumption and looks at what becomes available when we meet our actual life, with its imperfect light and unfinished edges, instead of rehearsing a better one. A contemplative invitation for anyone whose making has started to feel more like effort than relief.

Your host, Sōkei, is a Zen teacher and artist and the creator of Creative Life in Contact, a body of work that helps creatives draw on direct experience as the source of a vibrant and genuine creative life.

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