THREAD: How do we do creative work that we love and believe in while getting paid enough to thrive, WITHOUT "selling out"? Thread inspired by @naspap3 recent podcast on creativity, this is a kind of response, elaboration, w/ further thoughts and examples. Influenced also by re-reading Lewis Hyde's The Gift, & my GenX flashbacks of couch-surfing & vowing NEVER to "sell out"

metalearn.net/podcasts/ml198…

A thread on poetry and medicine. The healing power of poetry goes beyond being soothed, being distracted, and feeling deep empathy & connection during pain and suffering. There are physical impacts too. There is SO much more to explore at this interface, esp for thriving 1/n William Carlos Williams was a physician & one of my favourite modernist poets (he posthumously got a Pulitzer.) His poems & approach (summarized as "no ideas but in things") had a big impact on how I read poetry & the mechanisms by which I attend 2/n

doctorsreview.com/history/poetry…

THREAD: About the Fortnite hysteria, from a professor who studies video games and mental health and who is also a parent of two 12-year old boys that play Fortnite. 1/N TL;DR: The game is not evil. Nor is it particularly different in inciting the moral panic engendered by past popular media trends. Parenting is the more likely cause for concerns that are blamed on the game. 2/N