Welcome to Substack Ben! I think you'll love it here. Thanks for reading and commenting. I'll go check out your article now.
Have you found my Creator Retreat publication yet? It's a great slow-growth integrity/intimacy/identity/community approach to building your substack audience without getting caught up in hustle culture or growth hacker schemes. It's made for us quiet sensitive types.
I enjoyed reading your writings. And though I'm surrounded constantly with a lively, creative village, it's great to wander into someone else's calmer view of life. Thank you.
Mary, thank you for noticing and acknowledging that I do have a calmer view of life. It took me a couple decades to really embrace the calm, and now that it's here, I really celebrate it. My creative village keeps getting more lively, and calm, all at the same time.
Your words here resonate, Teri Leigh. Living and creating in the Jamaican countryside with no in-person community at all sometimes feels like heaven on earth and other times isolating in a poopy way. 🙄I consciously decided to share more of my artwork in this space in 2026 for exactly what you are writing about here. Thank you for Caspar-ing me with your magical support as you do 🫂✨
I haven't yet painted the animals in the corners. still working on becoming a painter. but if I find the artist that inspired me again, I'll add a link here to show you what she does. it's adorbs!
I love the name Casper. The hard C at the front of the name is like a sacred container, holding open an special space for all the softness of the letters s, p, and r that follow. It’s just a gentle sound.
It’s funny because we chose the name so because it was unique and we liked it. Of course everyone thought we did it because of the movie. My cousin ended up doing a very extensive family tree and I decided to check one day and it is actually the name of one of my grandfathers (probably ~20 generations back). So we can now confidently say it’s a family name. 😆
and that’s exactly how someone with the name Casper would work! That ancestor whispered that name into your skull in such a way you didn’t even know how influential it was! I love this!
That is a very cool new term, caspering, I will remember that and adopt it 🙂
Hobbit helped me make it up. I think it should become mainstream.
It really should!
Just posted an article on this same topic, well said! I’m a therapist new on Substack and I’d love to read each other’s work!
Welcome to Substack Ben! I think you'll love it here. Thanks for reading and commenting. I'll go check out your article now.
Have you found my Creator Retreat publication yet? It's a great slow-growth integrity/intimacy/identity/community approach to building your substack audience without getting caught up in hustle culture or growth hacker schemes. It's made for us quiet sensitive types.
https://thecreatorretreat.substack.com/
I enjoyed reading your writings. And though I'm surrounded constantly with a lively, creative village, it's great to wander into someone else's calmer view of life. Thank you.
Mary, thank you for noticing and acknowledging that I do have a calmer view of life. It took me a couple decades to really embrace the calm, and now that it's here, I really celebrate it. My creative village keeps getting more lively, and calm, all at the same time.
Your words here resonate, Teri Leigh. Living and creating in the Jamaican countryside with no in-person community at all sometimes feels like heaven on earth and other times isolating in a poopy way. 🙄I consciously decided to share more of my artwork in this space in 2026 for exactly what you are writing about here. Thank you for Caspar-ing me with your magical support as you do 🫂✨
I absolutely adore your little likkle images dear friend. Keep em coming!
Eeeeh I loved reading this, I too had a very quiet Christmas period and leant heavily into everything and anything creative!
Also, I would so love to see the pictures of these animas you painted in corners, that is so adorable 🥹
I haven't yet painted the animals in the corners. still working on becoming a painter. but if I find the artist that inspired me again, I'll add a link here to show you what she does. it's adorbs!
Love this! My son’s name is Casper so this made me smile. 😀
I love the name Casper. The hard C at the front of the name is like a sacred container, holding open an special space for all the softness of the letters s, p, and r that follow. It’s just a gentle sound.
That’s amazing! Thank you for sharing that!
It’s funny because we chose the name so because it was unique and we liked it. Of course everyone thought we did it because of the movie. My cousin ended up doing a very extensive family tree and I decided to check one day and it is actually the name of one of my grandfathers (probably ~20 generations back). So we can now confidently say it’s a family name. 😆
and that’s exactly how someone with the name Casper would work! That ancestor whispered that name into your skull in such a way you didn’t even know how influential it was! I love this!