Almost a Year Later...

On March 23 it will be 1 year since I posted anything in this blog. With everything that has happened and is happening in the world my blog felt insignificant. I didn't have words to talk about all the feelings, and art didn't seem like the thing to share. It is important to me that I am sensitive to the feelings of people around me, and the truth is, everyone was hurting. How could I write about art when the world was hurting so much?

Multiple times I started to write again, but got blocked about a paragraph into the post. The words that I heard everyday on the news or read on social media were ugly and filled with fear: anxious, afraid, angry, lost, poor, evicted, hungry, scared, overwhelmed, lonely, and the list can go on and on and on. Sometimes there would be a hopeful story or someone would share something good happening in their life, but with so much pain, again, I would ask, "How can I write about art?"

The truth is, I felt guilty. Did anyone else feel that way, or was it just me? There was so much pain in the world, but I was doing okay. Yes, there were sad, overwhelming parts in the last year, as with any year, but really there were a lot of blessings too. Writing a blog about my blessing seemed insensitive, so I went dark.

Well, I'm back! I'm done dwelling on my guilt. I want to be sensitive to the people who are still hurting and in no way want to diminish the difficulty many people have felt. My purpose in writing again, is to stop swimming in the tragedy and start reveling in life. There will be good days, bad days, and just okay days, but all of those days are important in this thing we call life. I won't promise to always feel positive when I'm writing, but I do promise to be real. I'll start sharing my thoughts, my art, and my life again.

I would love to hear from you, if you have anything specifically you want to read about. In the last year we have done plenty of art and had many adventures, but what do you want to read about? I can't wait to hear from you!

Next week I will start sharing about the last year of art. Until next time...keep on creating!