After poet Andrea Gibson passed away this week, I realized that poetry and sensuality are deeply intertwined. Both require "masterful sensitivity" and the courage to feel everything, including pain. I believe most people don't realize they're poets, and by tuning into all nine of our senses (not just the basic five,) we can live more sensually and honor the brief, beautiful time we have in these bodies ⚠️Content Warning: Death/Mortality Discussion, Grief/Loss, Mental Health, Body Image Resources Mentioned: - Etymology of Sensuality

- Royal Heart by Andrea Gibson

- SENSUALISM: Being Sensual is a Lifestyle

- How Many Senses Do We Have

- Andrea's Instagram

- How Cancer Transformed My Crushing Anxiety Into Boundless Bliss | Andrea Gibson | What’s Underneath

- “I will not fight:” Viral poet says accepting cancer gave them more life

- Tincture by Andrea Gibson

- Poetry Watching by *me*

- Carlitos Tiktok

- Charlie's Tiktok🫶 Join my newsletter ⛅ Wild Geese Instagram 📓 Anna's Substack 💌 Anna's Podcast Production Services TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 intro 01:48 Craftsy Sponsorship 02:50 Sensuality and Sexuality are NOT the same thing 05:55 Royal Heart by Andrea Gibson 07:09 Choosing Poetry over Self-Help 09:30 We have more than 5 senses!10:30 Pain is a sense 10:55 5 counterintuitive mental health tips 12:50 it's about letting go, not adding more 14:15 Poetry watching 19:31 we're drowing our senses20:21 sensuality requires you to come in contact with your shame 23:48 exercises to get in touch with your sensuality 26:00 savoring the time we have 26:50 Tincture by Andrea Gibson29:58 lightening the mood lol

How can you share what you're working on and get through the fear of judgement? Let's chat about it!

Resources Mentioned:

- Unfiltered Courage: The Radical Act of Being Yourself by Musguided

- Design Literacy in the Age of Intelligent Automation by Willem Van Lancker

- Get Numb Before You Get Good by Cedric Chin

- The Anxiety-Curiosity Switch: How to Redirect Your Mental Energy for Creativity by Anne-Laure Le Cunff

- Following the White-Hot Fire Inside of You by Kieran O‘Hare

- your perfectionism will not save you. by Ayan Artan

- Self-Doubt is the Creative Process by Zack Evans

- Unbound: A Woman's Guide to Power by Kasia UrbaniakTIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Introduction00:32 Listener Feedback02:21 Brilliant Sponsor03:21 Quote on Bravery04:00 Love Island Sidebar 06:14 Role of Fear in Creativity10:22 Kurt Vonnegut's Advice07:49 Art vs. Content16:30 Importance of Integrity, Neutrality, Conviction, and Curiosity18:18 Getting Numb Before Getting Good20:45 Qualities Needed Before Sharing Your Work26:36 ConclusionConnect with me: ⛅ Wild Geese Instagram 📓 Anna's Substack 💌 Anna's Podcast Production Services

Why is love SO intertwined with ownership? Let's cut that sh*t out! Resources mentioned: - All About Love by Bell Hooks- what the self help industry has wrong about...everything by Jamila Bradley- Love is Not Enough by Museguided- Fake Fairness is Killing Our Relationships -- And It's Everywhere- George Akolade Coker's Relationship Anarchy SmorgasbordTimestamps: 00:00 - intro 00:53 - Brilliant Sponsorship 02:03 - The flaws in our language around romantic relationships03:30 - pathologizing desire 06:10 - extracting ownership from love 11:20 - Why we're all afraid of commitment14:11 - A brief and incomplete history of love & marriage 17:00 - How to introduce equity to romantic relationships 22:00 - Relationship Anarchy 24:25 - Relationship Anarchy Smorgasbord

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Reading is the powerful tool we have to unlock our imaginations. And right now, I believe it's time to use our imaginations to see a new world. Maybe one that's not dominated by "obsessive technologies," as Ursula K Le Guin so aptly put. 

Resources Mentioned: 

- American Library Association

- Full Speech: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Passionate Defense of Art over Profits

 - Celine Nguyen's "No One Told Me About Proust"

- Carl Hendrick's Ultra-Processed Minds: The End of Deep Reading and What It Costs Us

- Rayne Fisher-Quann's Poser Ethics

-Museguided's Freedom’s Fragility, Democracy’s Decline

- Pleasure Activism by Adrienne Marie Brown

Timestamps: 

00:00 intro

02:33 everyone is using chatgpt to cheat? 

03:39 it's easier now than ever to seen as smart and interesting

05:45 Ursula K Le Guin's art versus profit motive 

09:10 Literacy IS quality of life 

11:17 Stop blaming students - this is a systemic issue 

12:29 taste is formed through love 

15:09 reading as resistance 

20:45 public libraries are being defunded. Here's what we can do about it!

21:07 why you should care about libraries 

22:11 All organizing is science fiction 

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I'm back for part 2 of the digital gardening episode! You wanted to see more of my garden, soI'll give you some behind the scenes today, plus tips on how to turn your notes into art.

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Timestamps:

00:00 - coming up

03:24 - these things AREN'T digital gardens

07:40 - platforms you can digital garden with

11:04 - answering your Qs about the process of digital gardening

24:32 - why this process is for you, even if you're not a writer

26:04 - how to turn notes into something new

29:10 - how to find great sources for your garden

30:34 - my personal takeaways from digital gardening

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We all need to understand what our greater values are & why we're pursuing what we're pursuing in order to get through the muck of ✨ the process✨. So let's chat about the plan I've been using for the past 4 quarters to change my life and my art! Resources mentioned: - Big Paper Planning Day- The Anatomy of a 'Why' by Museguided- Novelty Wanes, Then What? by Lexi Merritt- Oblique Strategies for Starting a New Project by Celine Nguyen- Are You Bored Enough to be Successful by Layla ShaikleyTIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Coming up 01:00 - Join Craftsy for $1.4902:03 - rethinking our the creative process 03:45 - Big paper planning day 05:04 - Finding your "why" 10:12 - creating action menus 12:24 - giving yourself credit 13:13 - finding your next project 14:55 - strategies for starting, continuing and finishing 16:35 - obstacles that come up in the creative process 23:01 - finishing is a skill 💌 Podcast Management Website ⛅ Wild Geese Instagram

Let's talk about public vs. private narratives and the pressure put on women to exploit their personal lives!! Yay! Resources Mentioned: - In and Against the Personal Essay by Kate Bugos- Be on your own side by Sophia Theories- Standing on the Shoulders of Complex Female Characters by Rayne Fisher-Quann- Why My Podcast is Called Wild Geese

Timestamps: 00:00 - coming up 01:17 - what makes a good artist? 01:45 - where is the line between vulnerability and exploitation? 02:55 - my personal writing on Substack 04:11 - the benefits of confessional writing06:00 - the risks in sharing personal stories 07:05 - what society values in women's art 09:00 - the dangers in parasocial relationships 10:30 - are you on your own side? 11:15 - standing on the shoulders of complex female characters 12:59 - performing your own life 14:37 - the joy of knowing who to turn to - beyond the algorithms suggestions 15:05 - building expertise through your parasocial besties 18:00 - how i'm finding the line between vulnerability and exploitation for myself 20:00 - Art should be for YOU, not an audience21:45 - How to ground yourself, even if you're performing for the audience in your head 23:30 - Why i'm not interested in "stop consuming, start creating" Connect with me:

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"creativity is just connecting things," & how living a project based life will save you from the robot-ization of society!

Reading mentioned:

- ⁠Be More Confusing, Actually⁠

- ⁠A Project of One's Own⁠- ⁠Research as a leisure activity⁠

- ⁠What does it mean to study independently in 2025?⁠

Websites:

-⁠Are.na⁠

-⁠ pudding.cool ⁠

- https://friendola.com/

- https://ita.toys/scans/milkbar/milkbar2

- https://cloudhiker.net/

Bonus websites:

- ⁠Make music??⁠

-⁠ Play Ispy⁠

- ⁠Write fiction⁠

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Timestamps:

00:00 - introo

01:18 - why do we want to fall down rabbit holes?

02:42 - personal branding & niching down

05:21 - how to be so interesting you beat AI

08:11 - living a project based life

12:15 - projects as a curiosity incubator

13:05 - how I fall down rabbit holes

15:42 - research as a leisure activity

21:48 - work/life balance

25:57 - resources to spark curiosity

you can transmute romantic preoccupation into an artistic vision that can literally change your life. resources mentioned: - Audre Lorde's Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power- Rue Yi's Tiktok- Rozie Ramata's Tiktok- Vanessa | LifeisArt Tiktok- "Love, Love, Love, and Everything In Between" By Still Yearning- Attachment Theory is White Supremacy in a Lab Coat💌 Podcast Management Website ⛅ Wild Geese Instagram Timestamps: 00:00 - coming up 00:32 - What is Eros? 01:00 - Dating & Crushing! 04:52 - Creative Satisfaction from a crush 06:25 - Building a creative practice 07:04 - What is Limerence? 08:37 - limerence is about art11:20 - Why attachment theory kind of sucks 14:39 - Creative projects give you something to obsess over 16:35 - not all love stories are romances 18:35 - How to love without abandoning yourself 20:42 - You don't have to invent, you can just see 25:07 - use it as creative fuel #creativity #makingart #selfexpression

The sentiment "everybody wants a village but no one is willing to be a better villager" is going around the internet right now (if you know the OG source, lmk. Right now, it's lost in the internet sauce for me). I'm talking community organizing, beyond friendships. If you have great friends, that's amazing. But we should all be focused on cultivating a wider sense of community and care right now. So, how do we actually do that? Let's talk about it...Resources Mentioned: - Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer- Elise Granata's "Becoming a High Agency Person"-Elise Granata's "7 Ideas to Jumpstart Community Practice"- Weenus_Maximus Tiktok💌 Podcast Management Website ⛅ Wild Geese Instagram 🐻 Personal Instagram TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Coming up 02:24 Robin Wall Kimmerer on Reciprocity03:30 The Three Sisters 07:25 Finding Your Unique Role in the Village 08:19 Why Urgency Doesn't Bring Community Closer 09:42 Building Up a Sense of Agency 11:06 UN-Branding Community12:58 How to Feel a Sense of Agency in Community 16:45 a Gift Economy17:40 the inevitability of conflict and inconvenience 18:03 starting on a small scale19:42 you can't bypass small talk21:33 the shared calendar