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Field of Streams

Audio readings of original writing from the creative newsletter, The Stream, written by Janeen McCrae and designed to inspire you to get out and make the thing. Subjects range from writing and art to just some generally odd stuff about what it is to be creative. Sometimes essays, sometimes humor, sometimes creative exercises.

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14:35

You cannot fact check poetry

Field of Streams ·

2025/11/18

If all poetry had to be fact checked before it got published, there would be no joy. The David Sedaris interview with Mike Birbiglia where he talks about The New Yorker fact checking his writing can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJtgocLVa0A All poems referenced within this piece are listed in the footnotes here if you want to go read some great poems! https://www.jumpinthestream.com/you-cannot-fact-check-poetry/ This is an audio reading of that post “You cannot fa...

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11:23

The time it takes is the time it takes

Field of Streams ·

2025/10/28

Slow down. Don't get mad. There are things you can control and things you can't and you can't escape time. Lemme explain what I mean. This is an audio reading of the post "The time it takes is the time it takes" from April 9, 2025. Additional inspirations can be found at that link. https://www.jumpinthestream.com/time Support the show About Field of Streams This podcast provides audio readings of The Stream newsletter's main feature. The Stream is written by Janeen McCrae, and aims to provide...

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19:52

I am not a brand. I am a body of work.

Field of Streams ·

2025/10/16

You are what you make. Listen in to ten minutes of me reframing what failure and success look like for me going forward, then launch into a spirited reading of my new mantra. If you want to skip straight to that, hit 11 mins and 18 seconds and GO! I mention a Greg Proops pep talk quote. Here is a picture of it on my corkboard: https://www.instagram.com/p/DP20nIcjqG2/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== The Patti Smith interview on WTF with Marc Maron is here. She tells the story about William Burroug...

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9:17

If Your Heart Beats Like a Hammer, Find a Nail

Field of Streams ·

2025/10/08

Today I read a piece of my writing triggered by Justin Hawkins, frontman of The Darkness, describing a certain type of drummer as a "shed builder." I take that term and give it a positive spin in relation to creativity and what it takes to be an artist. One's heart must hammer on. One must keep building the shed and banging in the nails. Blessed are the shed builders! This is an audio reading of the post "If your heart beats like a hammer, find a nail" from February 20, 2023. Additional...

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9:15

The Taste of Yuck: An Incomplete Oral History

Field of Streams ·

2025/09/25

Komodo dragons have an 'iron' coating on their teeth, protecting them and keeping 'em sharp. In today's episode, I make a connection between the idea of the damage negative emotions have on us and how we must eat them to learn how to digest and build a sort of emotional enamel against them. You'll see... take a listen! The story on Komodo dragon teeth that I mention in the intro is here: https://boingboing.net/2024/07/25/komodo-dragons-teeth-are-so-metal.html This is an audio reading of the p...

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12:50

Take a hike

Field of Streams ·

2025/09/10

In a time of doomscrolling and constant distraction via the rectangles in our hands and the insanity of the churning of content butter it is ever more important to step away. In this episode, I urge you to take a hike, actual or in the imagined worlds of others. This is an audio reading of the post "Take a hike" from May 12, 2025. Additional inspirations can be found at that link. https://www.jumpinthestream.com/hike/ Support the show About Field of Streams This podcast provides audio r...

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39:40

Prime time in the time of Primus

Field of Streams ·

2025/08/28

On a warm night in Santa Cruz, California, I entered the Quarry Amphitheater at UCSC to watch one of my favorite bands, Primus, play as part of the “Onward and Upward” tour, 2025. It got me to thinking about a moment in time, 30 years ago, when a song about a beaver helped me realize it’s ok if you don’t feel like you fit. Join me as I read to you a personal essay about the things that influence us, music as medicine, and the wonderful weirdness of Primus. Find a slew of Primus related links ...

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11:15

The Book of Hurt, Now Available at your Local Library

Field of Streams ·

2025/08/26

Do the things that hurt us shape us? Should we try to forget or rewrite the hurt found in our personal histories so that it doesn’t continue to hurt us all our lives? What can we learn from our scars? And is the "book of hurt" one of the most important emotional guide books (metaphorical) to our lives? The story that inspired it all, about the bowdlerizing of Roald Dahl books. https://popula.com/2023/02/20/roald-dahl-sensitivity-and-copyright/ This is an audio reading of the post "The Book of...

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11:35

"Hello, You Have Reached the Plug and Play Connection...

Field of Streams ·

2025/08/12

Can we be taught how to connect with art, be it a painting, music, writing, or whatever? Let’s talk about it. LA Story “looking at art” scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsN40iv5nzg This is an audio reading of the post "Hello, you have reached the Plug and Play Hotline" from March 6, 2023. Additional inspirations can be found at that link. https://www.jumpinthestream.com/hello-you-have-reached-the-plug-and/ Support the show About Field of Streams This podcast provides audio r...

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8:59

Resurrect Yourself Before you Wreck Yourself

Field of Streams ·

2025/07/29

Every day is a new day. An opportunity to hit the reset button on ourselves and be different than we were the day before. Let's talk about it! Bonus link: The cherries scene I mention from "The Witches of Eastwick." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdyFtK-HmNs This is an audio reading of the post "Resurrect Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself" from March 23, 2023. Additional inspirations can be found at that link. https://www.jumpinthestream.com/resurrect-yourself/ Support the show About Field ...

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9:27

Appetite for Disruption

Field of Streams ·

2025/07/19

When things aren't sticking - when you're not breaking through - it can be tempting to try what others are doing. No! Don't be same same. Be you you. That's the real disruption. This is an audio reading of the post "Appetite for Disruption" from December 2022. Additional inspirations can be found at that link. https://www.jumpinthestream.com/disrupt/ Support the show About Field of Streams This podcast provides audio readings of The Stream newsletter's main feature. The Stream is ...

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9:51

The bird who must be aubade

Field of Streams ·

2025/07/11

An aubade is a parting song, often sung at dawn as lovers farewell. This idea of singing our loves away was the inspiration for this episode, where the love is our creation - our work - and we must sing it on its way to find roost in the world. Listen in! This is an audio reading of the post "The bird who must be aubade"originally published on February 6, 2023. Additional creative inspirations can be found at that link. https://www.jumpinthestream.com/the-bird-who-must-be-aubade/ Support the ...

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9:22

The Steps in Between

Field of Streams ·

2025/07/01

Just like the 400 meter hurdles, you cannot complete a creative project without completing the steps in between. The Intelligencier article I reference in the intro “The Singular Beauty of the 400 Meter Hurdles” is here: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/07/the-singular-beauty-of-the-400-meter-hurdles.html This is an audio reading of the post ”The Steps in Between” originally published on February 13, 2023. Additional creative inspirations can be found at that link. https://janeenmcc...

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11:52

The calm before the storm within

Field of Streams ·

2025/06/24

Have we simply forgotten how to sit in the nothing of the moment? To sit in the silence without reaching for a phone? Sit. Take note of what's around you. Don't let frivolous things take you out of it. This is an audio reading of the post "The calm before the storm within" originally published on January 30, 2023. Additional creative inspirations can be found at that link. https://open.substack.com/pub/janeenmccrae/p/the-calm-before-the-storm-within?r=qg15&utm_campaign=post&utm_...

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12:19

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo...

Field of Streams ·

2025/06/17

Inspired by the phrase, “Use the whole buffalo” today’s episode encourages you to use the whole ‘buffalo’ of your life and experience to create your art. Here’s the TED video explaining how the title of this episode is grammatically correct: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWbzjGIec20 This is an audio reading of the post “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” originally published on January 9, 2023. Additional creative inspirations can be found at t...

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11:39

This horse has a name and its name is…

Field of Streams ·

2025/06/10

Are you right or left brained? Is that even a thing? And would you trust how your brain responds to an optical illusion to tell you so? Here’s something I wrote inspired by a little animation of a horse walking backward… or is it forward? Here’s the illusion. Which way does the horse walk for you? https://x.com/juliabradbury/status/1431221260860764162 This is an audio reading of the post “What is this, your dumb diary?” originally published on January 23, 2023. Additional creative inspi...

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9:34

Six Degrees of Ideation

Field of Streams ·

2025/06/03

Have you ever heard of vitrification? Crudely put, it’s the process where super-hot liquids cool rapidly and turn to glass. In this episode, I explore how hot ideas, if cooled too quickly, turn to glass and shatter. You need to cool those ideas down by degrees if you want them to survive. Listen in. I filmed a behind the themes video to go with this episode, and you can watch that here: https://janeenmccrae.substack.com/p/behind-the-streams-six-degrees If you want to read about the glas...

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9:46

What is this, your dumb diary?

Field of Streams ·

2025/05/27

At the start of 2023, I made a pact with myself: for the next year, I vowed to be Prolific AF.* I made the vow, then I wrote myself this pep talk, which I will happily read to anyone who needs it. Be prolific! Hope to see you out there, making stuff. This episode is somewhat of a follow on from the episode "What does it mean to be The Best?", which you can listen to here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2194216/episodes/17104737 This is an audio reading of the post “What is this, your dumb d...

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11:23

What does it mean to be The Best?

Field of Streams ·

2025/05/20

Inspired by a listicle in Rolling Stone magazine's "The 200 Greatest Singers of all Time", I got to thinking about what being The Best actually means? The Best by whose standards? What are you The Best at? Is that the point of making things? Hmm...Let's talk about being The Bestest. The Rolling Stone 200 Greatest Singers List https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-singers-all-time-1234642307/ This is an audio reading of the post “What does it mean to be the best?” originall...

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11:21

The Objects of my Afflictions

Field of Streams ·

2025/05/13

Difficult emotions, if left neglected, can take on a life of their own and cause all sorts of mischief. Similar to the Japanese myth of tsukumogami, where simple tools such as umbrellas and lamps can develop and spirit after 100 years of life and come back to haunt you, these emotions can play tricks on you. In this episode, I argue for the value of these difficult emotions. They are still tools you can use - just acknowledge their presence and show them some love. Go behind the scenes...

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