Curiosity is a sneaky little thing.
It doesn’t arrive with a plan or a map - it tugs your sleeve. It whispers, What is that?! It asks questions that don’t always have a tidy answer and then wanders off, trusting you’ll follow.
I’ve been thinking about curiosity a lot. Not as a trait you either “have” or don’t, but as a way of being. A habit. A choice to stay interested when it might be easier to decide you already know.
If you’ve ever spent time with a child, you’ve seen curiosity in its natural habitat. They poke. They prod. They ask “why?” approximately nine hundred times in a row. They are completely unbothered by not knowing. In fact, not knowing seems to be the point. Wonder belongs to them, and they use it freely.
Artists do this too. Or at least, the good ones do.
Making art is really just curiosity in work clothes. It’s asking what happens if I try this? and being willing to sit with the answer, even when it’s weird or unfinished or slightly inconvenient. Curiosity is what keeps artists from repeating themselves into boredom. It’s what nudges us to take one more look, ask one better question, stay with the idea a little longer.
Curiosity is playful, yes, but it’s also surprisingly serious.
It asks us to pay attention. To slow down. To notice the small, easily missed things. To resist the urge to rush toward certainty. In that way, curiosity becomes an act of care. For ideas. For people. For the process itself.
I love how curiosity creates connection.
It opens doors between disciplines. Between ages. Between people who might otherwise talk past each other. In creative communities especially, curiosity is generous. It sounds like tell me more instead of I know. It makes room for collaboration, for learning out loud, for figuring things out together.
Curiosity doesn’t demand expertise. It just asks that you show up.
It gives us permission to say I don’t know yet and mean it with optimism. It makes space for delight, even in very real, very serious work. Maybe especially there.
This blog lives in that space.
It’s a place to follow questions. To poke at creativity. To notice patterns. To think about art, community, parenting, leadership, and making things that matter without pretending there’s a single right way to do any of it. Expect wonder. Expect tangents. Expect occasional glitter and snacks in pockets.
Mostly, though, it’s an invitation.
What are you curious about right now?
What’s catching your eye?
What question keeps resurfacing?
What are you quietly wondering about, even if you don’t know why yet?
I’d love to hear. Let’s be curious together and see what shows up!
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