Please tell me your name through fashion
Hello gentle readers and viewers! Thank you all for being here and I hope your Sunday morning is going well. Week 9! Learning and growing. Thank you to everyone who been so kind and supportive.
These past few weeks have been wonderful sketchbook weeks. I firmly believe that creativity comes in waves, and my daily sketchbook habit has been a constant visual and gentle reminder of that truth. I draw through the bad weeks as well as the good. Even in the dullest times, one drawing out of the whole bunch always surprises me and makes me eternally grateful for the gift of creativity. That thinking is also very much why I wanted to start this space. Show up and share, good or bad.
This week, I read an excellent quote I found through Mitchell’s Newsletter, a wonderful substack from another gentle creative I admire. The quote comes from Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life:
One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water.
The quote got to me and made me question what I was hoarding and why. So, while I work on a more polished piece (which I certainly hope to do more of as this space grows with your support), I thought I’d share more about what brings me true joy daily—Wild and out-of-context gentleness.
Thank you all for being so kind.
I prefer sinking as well. #butnotfortoolong
Thanks for the shoutout!
I'm picturing a little drawn version of you with sunglasses on, sipping a drink, sitting on a tube, riding the waves in the creative wave pool. Having it come in waves is a nice way to think about it. Just keep riding.