A few years ago I made a free zine about gratitude that you can print and fold and fill out. I’ve gotten some lovely messages from people who have used it in their classrooms and at the Thanksgiving dinnertable. Look inside and download it here.
Virtue is in between vices
Today’s newsletter is a zine about Aristotle’s “Doctrine of the Mean”:
When I was hanging out with Ryan Holiday last Monday, I asked him about the Stoic virtues he’s currently writing about. I admitted that in the abstract, I didn’t find virtues all that helpful to me in my work! It often feels like vices — like envy or anger — are more motivating and bring about better ideas. (My books, even though they’re fairly positive, are often written out of a negative approach that’s fueled by my disgust with the world.)
Ryan brought up Aristotle’s “Doctrine of the Mean,” the idea that virtue is located in the middle of two vices. Each virtue is “a golden mean” between deficiency and excess. A path between two extremes. (Confucius and others wrote about this, too.)
You can read the rest of the newsletter and download the zine here.
Thanksgiving zines
I taught a zine workshop to my son’s 2nd grade class and made them this simplified version of My Gratitude Zine to fold and cut and fill out. You can download a printable PDF of the zine here.
How to judge a book by its cover
My son’s 4th grade teacher asked me to come speak about publishing and book design. To try to show the class that “all publishing is self-publishing” and books are just fancy zines, I spent a good portion of my Saturday making a batch of zines for them:
You can read the whole thing in my newsletter.
Energy in the gap
Today’s newsletter is a downloadable zine about finding energy in the gap between your vision and your reality.
Here’s the first page:
The creative seasons
The Abyss and The Gulp
A zine about the chasms between research and writing and writing and publishing. Available to download in today’s newsletter.
Catching a wave
My gratitude zine
I made a zine about gratitude you can print and fold and fill out. The link to download it is in today’s newsletter.
Intermissions
Today’s (experimental) newsletter includes a free, printable zine.
Read the whole thing on Substack.
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