Abel Brainz Digest, Vol. 43 - LATE PINK EYE EDITION - March 20, 2024

DON'T ASK!! BUT IT'S BETTER LATE THAN NEVER!!!

Sorry, I'll tone it down. 

Short one this week. 

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Here's something worth reading. Austin Kleon's book and newsletter basically inspired this one. Sometimes I love what he has to say, sometimes I don't. I think that makes for a good "fan-artist" relationship. 

https://austinkleon.com/2019/03/09/how-to-be-kind/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

If you're in the TL;DR crowd, here' the excerpt that really hit me:

Why is being kind so hard? From a review of On Kindness, by Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor:

The punch line of the book is that we are, each of us, battling back against our innate kindness, with which we are fairly bursting, at every turn. Why? Because “real kindness is an exchange with essentially unpredictable consequences. It is a risk precisely because it mingles our needs and desires with the needs and desires of others, in a way that so-called self-interest never can. . . . By involving us with strangers . . . as well as with intimates, it is potentially far more promiscuous than sexuality.” By walling ourselves off from our inner kindness, we end up skulking around, hoarding scraps from the lost magical kindness of childhood, terrified that our hatred is stronger than our love.

I experienced A LOT of kindness this week in the new sessions starting at Dad's Garage and Drama Inc. It was inspiring to be around such supportive artists. Thank you :)

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Tonight is the debut of All Star Lunchbox. I will be joining some of you on stage for some iprov fun at Dad's Garage at 8pm. 

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Abel