August 8, 2024 - As creatives develop through their career, we gather influences. Some influences are short-lived — personal trends that catch our eye for a moment and are discarded — and some are long-lasting. The longest lasting become kind of a council in our mind. Work that you can go back to again and again and get new insights out of. I think we can all name a number of artists that make up this special curated garden for us. Many of us do the same with authors. There are people I have never met but who I consider as important an influence on my mind and philosophy as the therapist I see every week. If you go back through my Muddy Colors posts, you can easily see some names repeat again and again — Joseph Campbell, Carl…