The Creative Every Day challenge theme for January is “Horizon.” I’m starting small, working from my collection of travel photos. This one is from my first trip to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. I think about the view from there often.
The quote got me through 2020 when little else worked. I missed being able to go places and do things with friends, but I’ve put the time into useful introspection about how I want to shape what I put into the world going forward.
Whatever else 2021 brings, I hope it brings physical, mental, and societal healing.
I’m giving my blog a brand new start for 2021. After two years without blogging, or really much in the way of art at all, I find I miss this outlet.
For years I’ve tried to live the role I’ve found myself in as I’ve gotten older and I keep trying to push myself in to fit the mold, but I don’t fit. It feels like living someone else’s life. I feel angry. I’m not happy. I’m not even content.
I’m wasting my time on things that don’t mean anything and don’t make the world a better place. It’s taken some reflection, but I know why: I need to create to feel alive.
It’s about time I figured that out. I’ve spent the last two weeks writing and I have felt the best I’ve felt in ages. I don’t want to lose that feeling, so I’m working on a plan to build my art into my life. I’m going to actively work to be creative every day, to spark my creativity, and to write for publication beyond this blog. I’m planning to join the Creative Every Day Challenge for 2021 as a way to challenge myself to keep up a daily creative practice.
