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“The more plentiful the work, the less time to be neurotic.”

Plus a farewell to an artist described as a “lumberyard poet”

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Leonie Mercedes
October 27, 2025

Good morning, sunshine. Here’s your three-part nudge for the day:

a prompt

Write on the following for 5–10 minutes:

If you only had an hour or two a week to work on a passion project, what would you do?

a thought

“The more plentiful the work, the less time to be neurotic.” – Marlene Dietrich (as seen in Daily Rituals: Women at Work by Mason Currey)

farewell

Jackie Ferrara, artist (1929–2025)

“She studied neither art nor architecture, but she did take a class in ceramics at the Henry Street Settlement. One day, she realised that her lumpy clay object looked nothing like a bowl and hence qualified as a bona fide sculpture, a new pursuit for her.”

Thanks for coming, dear makers and shakers. See you tomorrow ☕