Holly B.F. Warren Atelierista Artist Mind Wanderer Writer Optimist

Category: words

  • The Recipe for Action.

    Whim and Wit. Fulfillment is a lot like sourdough: it’s temperamental, requires constant feeding, and if you ignore it for a week, it starts to smell a bit funky. To get the texture just right, we’re upgrading the pantry. Instructions 1. The Honesty ReductionIn a heavy-bottomed pot, simmer your Honesty until the “performative nonsense” evaporates.…

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  • The Pond

    What place in the world do you never want to visit? Why? We have built a monument to the end of movement. In this grey expanse, the horizon is not a line of possibility but a wall of wet wool and weary shoulders. Here, the very concept of a path has been erased by the…

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  • Under Stand

    To Stand Under:watch and listen while making sense of others interpretations. To understand something is often framed as a purely intellectual victory, the moment the lightbulb goes off. But if we look at the architecture of the word itself, To Stand Under, the meaning shifts from a mental conquest to a physical posture. Understanding is…

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  • The Spindle and the Thistle: Why We Must Educate the Adult Imagination

    ​After 35 years in the atelier, I am haunted by a recurring image: the bush of thistles. ​I see it in the eyes of seasoned educators and weary adults—a dense, prickly thicket of no, should, and impossible. We speak of educare, of drawing out the light, yet we have become master architects of our own…

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