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The Creative Dispatch: Vol. 01
Relics

The Creative Dispatch: Vol. 01

Finding creativity in movement and other epiphanies discovered while on the Epicurean journey.

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Fatima Zehra
Nov 06, 2023
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i. The Loop:

Whef!

I finally feel like I have a handle on everything going in my career (and life). When I first thought of cultivating The Raconteuse, I was sipping espresso on the balcony of our my AirBnb in Porto, Portugal. I had been feeling a sharp tug through the days spent in the country that I failed to translate and make sense of.

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Do I want to restart posting about my studio again? No! I love the animosity of working behind-the-scenes and foregoing the need to constantly perform just to keep bringing food to the table.

Do I want to start a new business? Perhaps, additional services?! What?! NO! My plate is already full and I needn’t overflow it and have to clean up after.

So what IS it then? Sigh… I don’t yet know.

But I did. I was too chicken to say it out loud.

To do it for the aesthetic.

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