Common Shapes Podcast
Today I celebrate twelve years of continuous sobriety and my new podcast being in the world! Common Shapes : A podcast about Practices, Systems, and Rituals...
Creating Creative Containers
Today’s episode of Common Shapes is about creating creative containers for our work and convening the spiritual committees that help us make and share our...
Making a Beginning
Welcome to Common Shapes! This week’s episode is about the art of beginning AKA the moment just before the sunrise of our projects when anything and...
The annoying act of telling people what you do
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The blessing of being mediocre
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Welcome to Common Shapes
Welcome to Common Shapes, a podcast about practices, systems and rituals for creative life.It’s hosted by me, Cody Cook-Parrott.And on this show, I talk...
The dawn of the great garden experiment
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When our scars make us a quilt
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Friday Thread : Money and Business Resources
WHAT RESOURCES DO YOU USE + CONSUME TO KNOW YOURSELF ON A BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL LEVEL?As a business owner, self employed artist, person with a side hustle,...
Surrounding ourselves with good witnesses
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The faith of an inventory practice
Photo by Chloe SellsI find that when we do not answer the call to our art, our business ideas, the visions of our projects, our sacred hobbies, or our...
Friday Thread : How do we begin?
HOW DO YOU BEGIN YOUR DAY? YOUR PRACTICE? THE TASKS YOU DO NOT WANT TO TACKLE?I notice when comes time to write I never want to write. I make a million...
The flood of new ideas
Photo by Chloe SellsI have a lot of pots on the creative stove right now. A new podcast, a new book, transitioning Flexible Office into a more accessible...
Friendships on the rocks, house buying regret, and caring for loved ones in the throes of addiction
Photo by Chloe SellsWelcome to Yes Yes, my monthly advice column. I am writing to you from Detroit, MI where the snow is melting and Spring is in the air....
Ten years of newsletters
Photo by Sam Cook-ParrottTen years ago on 12/22/12 I made a decision to send out a newsletter. At the time I just wanted to tell people that I had a shop in...
Friday Thread : On writing and art, how our practice changes
WHAT BOOKS AND PODCASTS ARE INSPIRING YOUR CREATIVE PRACTICE RIGHT NOW?What are you listening to right now or reading that makes your writing, art,...
My little projects keep me company
My little home projects continue! I type from my sunny couch while I am in the six hour waiting period between coats of my tile paint. It was just warm...
Shape shifting, shame, and transformation
Photo by Anna FrissWhen I was nine years old I started writing a novel called Basketball Dreams on my dad’s small Macintosh computer from the 90’s that I had...
Everywhere is your studio
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Friday Thread : Marketing as Creative Practice
HOW DO YOU MARKET YOUR OFFERINGS AND PROMOTE YOUR WORK OUTSIDE OF SOCIAL MEDIA?What happens when we ignore the grid?May we stay tuned in! May it be so!This...