“When I’m not creating”

This past month, I found myself in a unique season that left me completely unable to create any art. 

I once said that we make time for the things we love – I now realize that life is too wild, and beautiful, for that to be true. 

I love creating art, but I didn’t make time for it. In all honesty, I couldn’t make time for it. This was just simply a time where I had to put the act of creating away in a drawer. 

This pause from creating taught me important truths about myself, and might I even say, humanity.

Life happens, and we don’t make time for the things we love. But I believe we must always make time for the things that help us see the world correctly.

Virginia Woolf said, “Art is not beauty, art is seeing things differently.”

It is only when I create that I see the world differently than it appears to be. When I didn’t allow time for that this past month, I found myself losing sight of the hope that I see in abundance when I take the time to see things differently. The hope that when we see things for what they really are, we might just find beauty in what upon first glance seems broken. 

It is through the act of writing and drawing that I not only acknowledge the world around me, but also imagine affection into the aspects of life that feel empty. 

Perhaps we all have this inside of us. The catalyst that opens our eyes to the world as it begs to be seen – as beautiful.

Creating.

Watching.

Dancing.

Reading.

Sitting.

Try to make time for the things you love.

But definitely take time for the things you need – the world depends on it.