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Mornings are better w some sunlight ✨

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🤚🏼

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Listening to the amazing Noname and drawing her portrait.

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Video by Bianca Giaever. Inspo when I find myself scared of change (a pretty frequent feeling).

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remember remember remember

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💡 (at Downtown, Portland)

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"At the end of the day, did we make people think?" "Data paints an opportunity." "Nurture and inspire human experience." "We're drowning in a sea of inspiration and starving for wisdom." So many awesome insights this morning. I love being inspired so early on a Friday ✨Huge thanks to Glenn Cole, Dana Wade, Pat Curtin, Scott Bedbury, Corey duBrowa, Tracy Wong & Deb Morrison. #SOJC100 #uocreativestrat (at University of Oregon)

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art + friends + wine

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☕️🌷

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morning light in brink's bed

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erin's film ~~ proof we were smiling in big sur 🌞 (at Big Sur, California)

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today we determined that my spirit animal is a golden retriever with wings, upon request. (at Cordova, Alaska)

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Hmmm exploring why I love these two together. Colored circles come from the left, colored strokes from the right. Old and new. Hard and soft. Human produced and naturally grown. Complementary: combining in such a way as to enhance or emphasize the qualities of each other or another.

Cordova, Alaska // 6.24.16

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From the very second she said "maybe stories are just data with a soul," I was hooked. I 100% hate to show my vulnerability, I hate to look like I don't know what I'm doing, that I'm not good at something, that I'm unprepared, that I'm not perfect. And even though I know I'm not perfect and know that this is what makes me, me, it's easier said than done.

On my website I say that I'm terrified of my fear of failure - this is because I know it's holding me back. And it's so eye opening and amazing to talk to other people (in and out of Allen) and hear that they have the exact same fears and vulnerabilities as I do - even the people who I think have all their shit together (people have said that I even look like one of those people!?). And my professor Deb Morrison - the "woman-who-has-her-shit-together" - even just posted on Facebook a picture that said "I miss being the age when I thought I would have my shit together by the age I am now."

EVERYONE FEELS THIS WAY -- this is something I have to remind myself constantly and I have to remind myself that in order to learn, grow, live, thrive, I have to lean into vulnerability. And this isn't easy. It's going to be really, really hard. I might not ever get used to doing it. But I need to try.

I also loved that she talked about the people that actually felt love and connection are those who believed they deserved it! This is something I've recently seen and felt. If i believe I can do something and believe I deserve it, then I go for it - i take a risk and try. And in the end, it shouldn't actually matter what the outcome was, but that I TRIED. This is something I'm still working on and always will.

But I also need to let myself be me and not try to be someone or something else - to stop comparing myself to others (in advertising, in art, in school, in life) and to stop saying "I'm not good enough to ____" or "I need to be better at _____ like that person."

So.... I have heard all of this amazing stuff but I would love some advice on how to get started with this - i need a little/big push to help me start acting the way I'm feeling (I need to practice what I preached). What can I do to push myself out of my comfort zone and better yet what are some way to convince myself to push myself out of my comfort zone?

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i a m i m p e r f e c t

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collaboration ~ compassion ~ humanity

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blind gestural portrait ~~ my new favorite way of painting! (at Lawrence Hall)