For 2021, my word of the year is Creativity.
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.
Beyond that, I’m leaving things flexible.