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Turning Points: In Italy Edition


Lauren Panepinto

Hi everyone, I'm on SABBATICAL. Orbit Books (our parent company, Hachette, actually) has a sabbatical program where after 15 years of working for the company you get a month off to do something healing/educational and heal a chunk of burnout. And I've been in Italy! I'm about halfway through, so I'll do a recap of everything and thoughts on sabbatical in general next month. For now, here's a repost of a fave episode on my…

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The Third Self


Lauren Panepinto

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…

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