fundamental questions

Quick questions jotted down as part of our cabin retreat planning activities. What are currently some fundamental questions in your life?

  • how can art move a life?
  • what is the value of attention and observation? how can we be good witnesses?
  • what does it mean to create something?
  • is there a way to increase serendipitous happenings?
  • what can we learn from others? what must we experience for ourselves?
  • what objects and ideas are our identities tethered to?
  • what does it mean to live together?
  • how do words help or hinder us?
  • what other worlds can we build with conceptual metaphors?
  • where does permission come from? to feel, express, and do
  • what is the balance between observation and sharing?
  • when does reflection become too much?
  • are there any shoulds? what are they?
  • what makes a decision hard? what makes a decision good?
  • where does technology grant us more agency?
  • what is creativity? where do computers fit in?
  • what does digital identity mean?
  • what is my relationship with technology? is technology necessary?
  • what stories/narratives have I rewritten about my past? what is the role of memory in identity?
  • what do I know to be true? what does it mean to be true to me?
  • what am I afraid of right now?
  • what do I like about being alone?
  • why do I want more? what do I want more of
  • what would my life be like if my actions aligned with what I say I value?