Hi, I’m Janeen. This is my favorite jumper.
I’m a writer living in California and originally—as you may have tweaked by my use of the word jumper—from Australia. I write about creativity and just random creative, art, and life stuff. Creatively. I sometimes try to write comedy. (Note the word try.)
One fun fact about me:
I sometimes begin a conversation by saying:
“I don’t know if I told you this, but I once rode my bicycle across America.”
Because I did. But enough about me, what about this newsletter?
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What’s Behind the Streams?
Paid subs get the free Monday issue of The Stream with my writing, but also receive BONUS behind-the-scenes stuff relating to the newsletter and the creative life in general. Behind the Streams is one of those things - a deep dive (video) into the subject matter of Monday’s post, and random other Janeen-ery. You can watch a free episode below. It relates to the post “Are you playing the shell game?” if you want to read that first.
You should follow my podcast while you’re at it
Yes, what a shock. I have a podcast called Field of Streams, which contains all the audio recordings for the main feature stories of each post. It’s always about three months behind the current post, but they go up weekly, and are nice and short!
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Yes, But What’s The Stream?
tl;dr
The Stream is written by the person wearing the jumper above and is about creativity and writing and being an arts tragic.
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gl;dr (Good length; did read)
This tiny house, my head my heart my body my soul, is filled with tiny thoughts. These thoughts are like the ethereal chemtrails of somersaulted astronauts—floating, shimmering, adorable conspiracies at the edge of the atmosphere, anxious for oxygen. Sentences like that reek of hyperbolic fluff, but don’t mind them, they’re just feeling their oats. They are pushing on their embryonic walls. They are curious about the future and will eagerly pull at that last thread of your favorite jumper. You know, the one that might unravel it all.
Or to put it another way: Many tiny thoughts should never leave my tiny mind house. But they’re going to, every week. They will jump blindly into The Stream.
Will you be a chaperone? Do you agree to guide them through rough waters, to provide your firm hand to grasp their not-drowning-waving one? Once read, they can bravely face the scorn of the sword or the warmth of applause and in that moment they will live or they will die. Brief, as they were born to be. It will be beautiful. Or it will be ugly. Either way, minutes of your life will be lost and that will be our contract.
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Tiny thoughts will also bring treats as amends, in case you don’t like said tiny thought. These amends might be something pretty, something fun, or something for your ears. Or all of those things. The whole shebang will be like a creative corsage, festooned elegantly upon your virtual wrist.
