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🎓 FIELD GUIDE 49: Because I can
Have you ever found yourself in the company of someone who you could talk to about anything, for hours? April is that someone. She will always engage if…
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Skyler Cail
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April Kekuewa Trepagnier
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⛪️ TREE 598: Church and Jesus
I’m doing an autobiography thing because I think it will make you think, which is the point of TREE. 6 I like this illustration, but it doesn’t capture…
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Jeff Gill
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💄 TREE 597: Soccer and sisters
I’m doing an autobiography thing because I think it will make you think, which is the point of TREE. 4 At age seven, despite my protests, my parents…
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Jeff Gill
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🌵 TREE 596: The easy way to become Jeff Gill – dangerous desert
I’m doing an autobiography thing because I think it will make you think, which is the point of TREE. 2 I grew up in Tucson, Arizona. My parents pastored…
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Jeff Gill
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🚌 TREE 595: The easy way to become Jeff Gill – origins
In 2009–10 I wrote a series of autobiographical sketches – words and iPhone paintings – about the most formative parts of my life. I stopped when I got…
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Jeff Gill
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🌱 TREE 594: You start without knowing what it is
Many of us have a romantic idea about how creativity happens: A lone visionary conceives of a film or a product in a flash of insight. Then that…
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Jeff Gill
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◌ TREE 593: It doesn’t exist yet
Here’s another quote from ‌Creativity, Inc. by the founder of Pixar Edwin E. Catmull and Amy Wallace: When we are making a movie, the movie doesn’t…
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Jeff Gill
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🪚 TREE 592: Craft without art
I’m reading ‌Creativity, Inc. by the founder of Pixar Edwin E. Catmull and Amy Wallace. The following quote comes from a section about the importance of…
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Jeff Gill
👀 TREE 591: The skill is truly seeing what is shown
‘When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.’ —Maya Angelou Often the truth is in plain sight and we don’t see it because we’d…
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Jeff Gill
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