Tag: spiral trail

photo by Sean Thomas via Unsplash When you are writing a new idea, but you don’t know how to put the pieces together or if everyone will think you are an idiot – it’s there. It’s there in a painting, when you have a gorgeous piece of brushwork that’s not quite hitting the feeling, and…

photo by Billy Pasco via Unsplash Any kind of creative work or business building continually takes us to the edge of a cliff. On one side is the sh*tty world you’ve known so far. On the other is everything you might want, things that might kill you, and existential terror. Over and over again, we…

I’ve been telling myself for years that it is okay to be who you are, but not show anyone. To live hiding in the dark. Existing in stolen moments at 3 am in a journal. It’s not. I’ve been scared of visibility. Scared of what I imagined was the unconscionable weight of inconveniencing people with…

Imagine it’s the second century C.E. You’re a Viking. You’ve been living with your family in a dirty long house for months and months on end. It’s late winter – the food stocks have long since run low, the hunger gnaws constantly in your belly, and the pathetic fire barely touches the constant cold that…

The raspberries are in. The bushes are heavy with beautiful red, juicy berries. And right underneath my raspberry bushes, under an innocent-looking pot, is a wasp nest (again). Our garage is full of wasp traps. There are at least four in there. But I never put them out. There was a time when I cursed…