Notes From the Studio
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Notes From the Studio *
Writing on communication, design, culture, public-facing work, and the way organizations explain themselves.
This archive includes studio notes, public communication essays, design commentary, civic observations, and earlier editorial work from my time producing entertainment content for the Gaylord Herald Times’ Extra section.
Some pieces are practical. Some are critical. Some come from client work, municipal work, publishing, events, arts coverage, or the experience of making public-facing material on deadline.
The through-line is the same: how information is shaped, how people receive it, and what happens when the work has to be useful beyond the moment it is published.
Kindness, Community, Mindfullness: Better living comes through gratitude
As November comes to a close and we enter deeper into the holiday season, gratitude is something we all explore. This past month, Yoga-45 invited the members of the Gaylord community to participate in a gratitude challenge. When researching the challenge, Yoga-45 found a Harvard University study that revealed a daily gratitude practice had physical, spiritual, and social benefits. Surprising, no?! These benefits include stronger immune systems, lower blood pressure, better sleep, general alertness, positivity, and happiness, as well as, increasing compassion, generosity, and creating more forgiving natures.
Yoga: Relaxing the body to heal the mind
Over the years Yoga has become a go-to work out with a cultlike following. Yoga has become synonymous with tight abs, firm butts and tight stretchy pants. We hear the term yoga and instantly increased flexibility and strength comes to mind. But, yoga has a little secret — sometimes it makes you cry.