The fight against perfection in creative endeavors
As an artist I often struggle to embrace the messy side of creativity. I love creating—whether that’s an acrylic painting on canvas, ink on watercolor paper, or some other medium. The challenge for me comes from the need to have things turn out exactly as I...
Healing is Difficult
I’ve been sitting on half of the manuscript for Healing is Difficult + The Human Condition for several years. The other half was written in a short period – about a month, give or take a few days – following the ending of an encounter (it was...
Taking Chances
While I’ve been writing a lot more this year, very little of it has been on this blog as I’ve been busy with other projects. Afiwi Marketing is coming along nicely, and there’s now a podcast to go along with the blog. Like I said, I’ve been...
Solitude
Solitude is its own kind of reward. Ask any introvert. We live for it, need it, take breaths only for the promise of being reunited with ourselves away from the watchful gaze and strange cacophony of other humans and their activities. It’s been a week since I left...
Sharing is Difficult
About a month ago I shared a post from my travel blog on Facebook. As these things go there were mostly favorable comments. But one in particular stood out to me – a young man who thought it necessary to take 20 seconds out of his day to let me know the post was...
