What is a Good Life?

On the 138th episode of What is a Good Life?, I’m delighted to welcome Edie "EdieArt" Pijpers. Edie is a self-taught painter, musician, and writer whose work flows across the porous borders between music, colour, story, dream, and video. Raised in the Netherlands, Edie travelled through Paris, Sydney, and Los Angeles before planting roots in the Hudson Valley. Over the years, she has released five albums, held art shows in Nashville and New York, painted murals, published mindful children’s books, created intimate video pieces, and collaborated on the oracle deck Healing the Inner Child via Hay House.

In this conversation, we explore the essence of creativity and the balance between doing and being. We explore the importance of giving space and time to ideas, as well as attuning to the muse that lives as presence in ordinary moments.

Ultimately, she highlights the significance of relationality, living attentively, and embracing the flow of existence.

For more of Edie's work:
Website: https://www.edieart.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EdieArt77

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00:00 What is trying to emerge?
04:45 Authority and uncertainty
10:00 Exploring how things are
13:00 Balancing masculine and feminine energies
17:30 The call into nature
25:00 Giving life more space
31:05 The seriousness and lightness of life
36:15 Parenting, relating, and space
42:00 Letting go of control
45:00 Meaningful and meaningless
48:00 Answering a call to creativity
51:30 The significance of place
54:30 Summary and what is a good life for Edie?

What is What is a Good Life??

Over the last three years, I've interviewed nearly 300 people around the question of "What is a good life?" I am not trying to find or prescribe universal answers to this question; instead, I aim to prompt your own inquiry into what constitutes a good life for you. I am also trying to share more genuine expressions of the human experience, beyond the masks that we wear.