Jane Pike writes poetry. And asks a lot of questions. Here, you'll find her musings on both. A weekly poem + essay exploring life's beautiful questions + her best attempt to live her way to the answers. She really hopes you'll join her. janepike.substack.com
Hello lovely friends,Welcome to the very first edition of The Sketchbook Dispatch! I'll be sharing one of these each month — a mix of what I've been working on in my sketchbooks and a spotlight on the incredible things our Creating Wild community has been dreaming up, sketching out, and bringing to life inside our member space.Honestly, I'm in awe. There's something so nourishing about being surrounded by curious, magical minds, and it's such a joy to be able to share even a small piece of their work with you.Alongside their creations, I'm also giving you a little peek into my own process this month. A video walk-through of my sketchbooks — eclectic, evolving, and full of both fast timed sketches (that challenge my recovering perfectionist tendencies) and slower, more thoughtful explorations (my preferred modus operandi!). I've been feeling a real pull toward “slow art” lately, but also experimenting with quicker studies to loosen things up for my illustrated work.If I had to name a theme that's emerged through all of this, it would be permission — giving myself the space to try something new (like storytelling through illustrated essays) and letting delight lead the way, even if it means stepping off the well-worn path or confronting what I thought I was and wasn't “good at.”So, with that, I hope you enjoy the video. Let's dive into what our amazing community has been creating.Before I send you off into the wild...If you'd like to be part of the Creating Wild community, you can learn more about it here. We've built a private, cozy corner away from the noise of social media. A space to explore creativity together through monthly workshops, weekly prompts, and a shared practice studio where you can connect, ask questions, and share what you're working on. We'd love you to be a part of it.
Curious for more? Each month, I share reflections on the nervous system, creativity, and our connection with the more-than-human world. If that's something that lights you up, I'd be so glad to have you along for the journey and explore together here
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This podcast is generously supported by my community over at Substack. To join us, visit janepike.substack.com
This podcast is generously supported by my community over at Substack. To join us, visit janepike.substack.com
This podcast is generously supported by my community over at Substack. To join us, visit janepike.substack.com
This podcast is generously supported by my community over at Substack. To join us, visit janepike.substack.com
This podcast is generously supported by my community over at Substack. To join us there, visit janepike.substack.com
This podcast is generously supported by my community over on Substack. To join us, visit janepike.substack.com
This podcast is generously supported by my community over at Substack. To join us, visit janepike.substack.com
This podcast is generously supported by my community over at Substack. To join us, visit janepike.substack.com
This episode is generously supported by my community over at Substack. To join us, visit janepike.substack.com
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Our first episode of the Wonder Files! Thank you for joining us. To be a part of our creative community, visit janepike.substack.com ❤️ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit janepike.substack.com/subscribe
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Lately, I've been musing on what it means to have a sense of place. What is place? Is it assigned, found? Can it be both? What does it mean to be searching for it? Or to lose it?These are my meditations on place from the last week of October, 2023.This post is generously supported by my community over on Substack. To join us go to janepike.substack.com
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Often, when I close my eyes, I return to your oaks. It's not a single tree I go back to. It's the whole forest. I stand, head pressed against a trunk, and I wait to be shown. A few months back, I walked in real time there, feet on the domed diaphragm of the earth, lungs stretching up, around me, over me. I felt you there, even though I don't know exactly who ‘you' is. Maybe that's the draw of the forest, of the oaks. It's never only about the trees. We somehow know they're a touchable version of truth if only we're still enough to hear it. As I stood, people passed through, walking their dogs. We'd nod hello, exchange a murmur of required politeness and I'd want to call out, do you feel it too? What we're feeling I don't know. Perhaps I could make it physical? Do your legs feel stronger for being here? Your heart more stable for spending the time? Questions based on the universal knowing that if we stepped sideways out of our body, we too would grow leaves. I stood longer than I had time for in your forest. I lingered. It felt rude to leave. The trees there, showing so much strength and care. If I left, I'd be missing something. A limb perhaps, a branch, a green shoot, something important. I wanted to be sure they knew. Thank you, I tell them, I understand your generosity. I read more about your oaks, and I want to tell you, to the Greeks, the oak was the sacred tree of Zeus. To the Nords, it was to Thor. The Greeks believed in hamadryads, spirits born and bonded to a certain tree on which its life depends. I whisper, and wonder to myself, are we not all then hamadryads? And to you the woman, who walked the Scottish countryside in a time not hers to own whose money reclaimed the land but whose spirit revived its breath, it was Zeus, and Thor and the spirit of Hamadryads that coursed through your blood, that saved the oaks. But perhaps I have that wrong. In hindsight, I think perhaps it's you, and the oaks, that coursed through theirs. ~ Jane PikeAnother Beautiful Question with Jane Pike is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit janepike.substack.com/subscribe
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