“Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense—the creative act.”

– Kenneth Rexroth

As the new year kicks off, I have been thinking about the necessity of ideas and words. Without them, we are soulless, both individually and culturally.

At the end of last year, I made a papercut inspired by a line from Cheryl Strayed’s Dear Sugar column. I wanted to use it to inspire others to create, so over the holidays, I turned them into a notebook, printed by Scout Books. They’re meant to fuel all kinds of revolutionary ideas and writing.

They’re available in my shop now, and 10% of the proceeds goes to supporting PEN America, an organizations working to protect open expression in the United States and worldwide.