I be see this was written in 2023, now it’s 2025 and the world is starting to fall apart starting with US where I grew up and now want to leave. I’m paralyzed creatively , I can’t write or paint or draw and some days get out of bed. When I can’t create I just stop. And inertia sets heavily in. Hoping to find my way out of this!
Oof, I've been there Catharine. And I know it can be really hard to find your way out. I hope you can take good care of yourself through this difficult moment, and that you might stumble on a chink of possibility whenever the time is right.
It's funny. I think I wrote this piece in 2021, shared it in 2023 and find myself grappling with it in new ways in 2025. Is it an every-two-years cycle? Or an accumulation of all the shitty things in the news recently? Or the end of Winter? I don't know, but I reassure myself by remembering that I've always found my way out of it before, and I trust/hope that I will again.
I am sending love and solidarity your way, Catharine 💕
I be see this was written in 2023, now it’s 2025 and the world is starting to fall apart starting with US where I grew up and now want to leave. I’m paralyzed creatively , I can’t write or paint or draw and some days get out of bed. When I can’t create I just stop. And inertia sets heavily in. Hoping to find my way out of this!
Oof, I've been there Catharine. And I know it can be really hard to find your way out. I hope you can take good care of yourself through this difficult moment, and that you might stumble on a chink of possibility whenever the time is right.
It's funny. I think I wrote this piece in 2021, shared it in 2023 and find myself grappling with it in new ways in 2025. Is it an every-two-years cycle? Or an accumulation of all the shitty things in the news recently? Or the end of Winter? I don't know, but I reassure myself by remembering that I've always found my way out of it before, and I trust/hope that I will again.
I am sending love and solidarity your way, Catharine 💕
Sharing about the snippets of writing people don't see was a great read for me today! Thank you for sharing this :)
Thank you Jess :)