Zen. Art. Garden.

Zen Insights, Creative Rituals, and Sacred Systems for Slow Growth.

Weekly Essays + Regenerative Art Play + Practical Mysticism

By Corey Sweet

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I Never Saw a Garden in the Garden State

For Everyone Who Knew They Needed More Room
Jun 17 • Corey Sweet

Scarcity Was Engineered

What I Learned From A Dwarf Plantain Tree
Jun 9 • Corey Sweet

The Artist and The Merchant

Making Things You Love and Surviving on Faith Based Labor
May 26 • Corey Sweet

You Are Not One Thing

What the Portuguese Man O' War taught me about being a polyphonic creative.
Apr 28 • Corey Sweet

Clarity Is a Practice

The things I did for no reason taught me everything
Mar 27 • Corey Sweet

We Adapt to the Unbearable

Why Numbness Becomes Normal, and How Systems Depend on it.
Feb 26 • Corey Sweet

Nothing Is Mundane. It's All Magic.

What 9,500 miles of contrast taught me about being present
Jan 20 • Corey Sweet

Nothing Big Happened This Year

And That's Why it Was Important
Jan 1 • Corey Sweet

The Algorithm Doesn't Reward Meaning, People Do

How to Stop Competing for Attention, and Start Creating Conditions for Connection.
Dec 18, 2025 • Corey Sweet

Front Yard Kung Fu is Taking Me to Thailand!

The Fruits of Practicing in Public
Dec 5, 2025 • Corey Sweet

Front Yard Kung Fu: The Discipline of Leaving Room

How To Build Structure Without Strangling
Dec 2, 2025 • Corey Sweet

Front Yard Kung Fu: The Discipline of Finishing

Medicine for Makers Who Keep Almost Completing Things.
Nov 20, 2025 • Corey Sweet

The Day I Stopped Trying to Make Sense

My Journey Into Asemic Writing
Nov 5, 2025 • Corey Sweet

The Backend of Creativity

Learning to Build Without Performing
Oct 21, 2025 • Corey Sweet