Author: Brooke Golden

  • Finding Your Roots This Holiday Season

    Finding Your Roots This Holiday Season

    Like many, I love this time of year, the holiday season. I love the magic of the twinkling lights and winter tales. I love celebrating and honoring traditions of my own creation, drawn from my family, my ancestors who came before, and my own desires for this season. I love to cook and bake and…

  • Leaving social media, choosing creative freedom

    Leaving social media, choosing creative freedom

    We live in an interesting world. One where we have the freedom to create what we want to create and offer our unique work to many using the Internet. Yet, in a way, this way of creating our work in the world feels less free. We give up much of our time creating to create…

  • Become Fully Alive by Embracing Death

    Become Fully Alive by Embracing Death

    We have moved away from looking at death in our modern society, yet just as it’s important to feel the full range of our emotions, it’s also important to look at the full cycle of life and death in order to be able to fully live – in order to fully be able to experience…

  • The Importance of Reclaiming the Lost Arts

    The Importance of Reclaiming the Lost Arts

    Creating at the Intersection of Function, Meaning, & Beauty Humans have been making for ages for a variety of reasons – from function and utility to ritual and meaning to aesthetics and beauty. We have hands for a reason. It’s time we put them to work and reclaim all the ways we can be makers…

  • Weaving Together the Pieces – It’s What Makes You Unique

    Weaving Together the Pieces – It’s What Makes You Unique

    Forces outside of us lead us to cast away real and valid parts of ourselves, yet to know deep fulfillment and satisfaction in the outer world, we must first know wholeness in our inner world. We must weave together those lost threads of ourselves, coming back to wholeness, creating a beautiful tapestry of our unique…

  • Reclaiming What’s Been Lost – Looking to Ancestral Wisdom

    Reclaiming What’s Been Lost – Looking to Ancestral Wisdom

    It’s no wonder so many of us feel lost in the modern world – we’ve lost many of the pieces of what it means to be a human being as we’ve modernized. We can look to the ways of the humans who came before us to infuse more meaning in our lives. If you’re anything…