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“A tour de force. This powerful story of love, loss, and survival is not to be missed.”

— KRISTIN HANNAH, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale

Why do we often feel like we're living through something that's happened before? How can we deal with our fear of repeating the past? The answer can be found in understanding history's rhymes.

The reasons we recognize these rhymes are:

1. Human Nature
2. Fear
3. Dehumanization & Displaced Blame

We can judge the rhyme by asking:

1. Is this genuinely rising from the populace or being dictated top down by institutional power?
2. Does this movement promote nonviolence or violence?
3. Do the institutions respond to nonviolence with violence in any form?

And we can control our response to historical rhyme by asking:

1. What is making me anxious and fearful? Where did it come from?
2. Did it happen to you or to an abstract collective?
3. Where am I getting the information that is making me feel this way?

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For a rare opportunity to dive deep into Vesper’s books, live with the author, register now for the new VESPERiSMS BOOK CLUB at https://www.vesperillustration.com/bookclubpromo!

Vesperisms: The Art of Thinking for Yourself is the podcast to help you make sense of your place in this crazy world by reclaiming an artistic worldview. Everything around us is trying to push us into boxes, but that's not how artists' minds work. Let's get off that detour and back on the main road to thinking for ourselves: as artists.

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BERLINERS is coming, Fall 2022 from Knopf! Pre-order your copy now!

My other books, including What the Night Sings, A Cloud of Outrageous Blue and A Most Clever Girl: How Jane Austen Discovered Her Voice, can be found at any bookseller—I recommend your local indie bookstore, who would love your support.

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Follow me on Instagram @vesperillustration, and support Vesperisms on Patreon!

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Music for Vesperisms is provided by Ben + Vesper.

Not to throw shade on digital art forms, but we need to step back and think about why we as artists do what we do, and the importance of making a mess of it.

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Vesperisms: The Art of Thinking for Yourself is the podcast to help you make sense of your place in this crazy world by reclaiming an artistic worldview. Everything around us is trying to push us into boxes, but that's not how artists' minds work. Let's get off that detour and back on the main road to thinking for ourselves: as artists.

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BERLINERS is coming, Fall 2022 from Knopf! Stay tuned for pre-orders coming soon.

My other books, including What the Night Sings, A Cloud of Outrageous Blue and A Most Clever Girl: How Jane Austen Discovered Her Voice, can be found at any bookseller—I recommend your local indie bookstore, who would love your support.

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Follow me on Instagram @vesperillustration, and support Vesperisms on Patreon!

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Music for Vesperisms is provided by Ben + Vesper.

Vesperisms is back with Season 3! Here I explain my hiatus, what's ahead, and the need for artistic independence moving forward.

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Vesperisms: The Art of Thinking for Yourself is the podcast to help you make sense of your place in this crazy world by reclaiming an artistic worldview. Everything around us is trying to push us into boxes, but that's not how artists' minds work. Let's get off that detour and back on the main road to thinking for ourselves: as artists.

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BERLINERS is coming, Fall 2022 from Knopf! Stay tuned for pre-orders coming soon.

My other books, A Cloud of Outrageous Blue and A Most Clever Girl: How Jane Austen Discovered Her Voice, can be found at any bookseller—I recommend your local indie bookstore, who would love your support.

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Follow me on Instagram @vesperillustration, and support Vesperisms on Patreon!

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Music for Vesperisms is provided by Ben + Vesper.

As part of this series on Censorship, here is an interview I did with musician, piano professor and all-around bright light Ora Itkin. We discuss The Little Prince, the primacy of story, and the importance of underground artists, especially for Ora as someone who left the former Soviet Union at its collapse. Follow her on her channel, Open Space with Ora: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCekFKRxbOLydvhVCiMvC9vQ

OMG, you guys, is cancel culture even real? Do some people deserve it? What about "accountability" and "consequences"? What even *is* censorship, exactly? Thus begins a new series on Vesperisms examining censorship from a few different angles.

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Vesperisms: The Art of Thinking for Yourself is the podcast to help you make sense of your place in this crazy world by reclaiming an artistic worldview. Everything around us is trying to push us into boxes, but that's not how artists' minds work. Let's get off that detour and back on the main road to thinking for ourselves: as artists.

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My newest books, A Cloud of Outrageous Blue and A Most Clever Girl: How Jane Austen Discovered Her Voice, can be found at any bookseller—I recommend your local indie bookstore, who would love your support.

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Follow me on Instagram @vesperillustration, and support Vesperisms on Patreon!

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Music for Vesperisms is provided by Ben + Vesper.

Why do artists often feel like misfits, oddballs, wanderers? Could it be that we have forgotten that we belong in the borderlands, living a life filled with an inner flame, as poet Carl Sandburg said, that "the fireborn are at home in fire?"

This is an adaptation of a talk I gave at The Breath and The Clay conference in March 2021. This is a conference for people exploring the intersection of art and faith, and is also the host of the Makers & Mystics podcast (check it out!). Though this talk was given to an audience in a faith context, I believe that artists of any spiritual persuasion will receive something valuable here.

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Vesperisms: The Art of Thinking for Yourself is the podcast to help you make sense of your place in this crazy world by reclaiming an artistic worldview. Everything around us is trying to push us into boxes, but that's not how artists' minds work. Let's get off that detour and back on the main road to thinking for ourselves: as artists.

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My newest books, A Cloud of Outrageous Blue and A Most Clever Girl: How Jane Austen Discovered Her Voice, can be found at any bookseller—I recommend your local indie bookstore, who would love your support.

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Follow me on Instagram @vesperillustration, and support Vesperisms on Patreon!

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Music for Vesperisms is provided by Ben + Vesper.