Introducing Chronicles of Creating
👋 HEY there! How have you been? Seriously!
The last several months have been historical in so many ways and at times, an uphill battle with emotions, information fatigue, and creative slumps.
If you’re anything like me, you started the year full of excitement, new goals, and a desire to learn. Then the world shut down and my business, which was supposed to be running into its third year, pretty much slowed to a crawl. I suddenly had a lot of free time to pause and reflect.
As a designer, I wasn’t sure how to stay relevant. I was emotionally tired and unsure how I’d continue to grow a business in a time like this.
After about a week or four of sleeping in and going about my day as if I was on vacation, I regained a sense of creative energy. I started writing, making, and talking to people more than I ever made time to do before.
That’s when an idea materialized. I realized I had been subconsciously documenting my life by means of a creative lens.
So I took life’s lemons and mixed them with the sweet nectar of downtime to make a new sort of experimental lemonade! Now I want to share all of it with you.
Introducing, Chronicles of Creating: an ongoing experimental series that includes blog posts, a podcast, and a monthly newsletter, all as a means to chronicle my creative life during a pandemic and inspire creativity and encouragement to you–to anyone who is looking to get back in touch with their creative self.
There is still a lot of heaviness in the world right now. Continued injustices towards black lives, grieving hearts towards the virus, and a lot of personal suffering from our own mental blocks of old vs. new lifestyles. We have a long way to go so let’s progress and process together.
I think creativity is an important and powerful tool that can urge change within a community, and within the world. But it starts with you and me.
My life is far from the way it was before, and I am thrilled about that. There is a greater sense of patience, learning, and exploring that I had lost touch with.
The following weeks will reveal conversations with fellow creatives, blogs where I write about tips for living a creative living and ways I’ve been experimenting. Plus, a monthly newsletter highlighting what’s keeping me curious, engaged, and learning during this time.
Chronicles of Creating is the result of quarantined creativity and experimental energy.
I can’t wait to share it with you!
Until then, continue to Create. No Matter What!
