Life thrives at the intersections. I want to awaken aliveness in these middle spaces.
Throughout time, there have been many names for people who tend to hang out “between worlds.” In the Celtic tradition of spirituality, they were often “Wandering Celts.” Báyò Akómoláfé calls them “fugitives.” Clarissa Pinkola Estés speaks of them as “La Loba,” the Wolf or Wild Woman.
Creatives, artists, mystics, poets of paradox. Doulas, herbalists, writers. Misfits, radicals, shape-shifters, jesters. Name a culture and they’ve been there. And, because you are here, I’m guessing you’re one of them.
Welcome.
“You are writing my insides out on your pages and podcast. Everything you’re saying is resonating so deeply with me. What you’re sharing is nothing short of revolutionary, and dang, I’m so grateful for it.”
Stephanie
Creative, Doula
“Your written body of work is stunning. I think it’s a roadmap to somewhere I want to go, and I think that somewhere is the middle space between all matter.”
Kate
Farmer, Butcher, Storyteller
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Occasional write-ups on artists, scientists, mystics, and other creative idea/genre-mashing humans so you can see how others make lives out of mixing together all their varied interests, personal essays of my own where I connect seemingly un-connectable things, my favorite recent finds, and new podcast announcements.
Podcast
Audio Content
This Plus That is a show about connecting the seemingly un-connectable and why it matters—everything from Neuroscience + Dance, to Fractals + Free Will, to Love + Death. Join me as I interview people creating lives at the intersections of all their interests and complexities—even and especially if those interests are paradoxical.
hi there, I’m Brandi.
I’m in love with the space between things. The intersections and paradoxes. That’s probably you.
In one of Rob Brezsny’s newsletters, he once said of Libra’s (my sign) that, “...[our] life purposes may include: 1. to be beautiful in the smartest ways you can imagine and smart in the most beautiful ways you can imagine; 2. to always see at least two sides of the story, and preferably more; 3. to serve as an intermediary between disparate elements; 4. to lubricate and facilitate conversations between people who might not otherwise understand each other; 5. to find common ground between apparent contradictions; 6. to weave confusing paradoxes into invigorating amalgamations; [and] 7. to never give up on finding the most elegant way to understand a problem.”
I find this to be a very good way to describe what I’m experimenting with in my work. If you resonate, come join me.