Vibe Therapy

This is one of my most favorite songs when I get hit hard with the feels

“Come All You Weary” by Thrice

Come all you weary with your heavy loads
Lay down your burdens, find rest for your souls
‘Cause my yoke is easy and my burden is kind
I’ll take yours upon me and you can take mine

Come all you weary who move through the Earth
You’ve been spurned at fine restaurants and kicked out of church
I’ve got a couple of loaves, so sit down at my feet
Lend me your ears and we’ll break bread and eat

Come all you weary
Come gather ’round near me
Find rest for your souls

Come all you weary, crippled you lay
I’ll help you along, you can lay down your canes
We’ve got a long way to go, but we’ll travel as friends
The light’s growing bright, further up, further in

Come all you weary
Come gather ’round near me
Find rest for your souls
Rest for your souls

Come all you weary
Come gather ’round near me
Come all you weary
Come gather ’round near me
Find rest for your souls
Rest for your souls
Rest for your souls
Rest for your souls.

Great Things Take Time and Patience

“I dress myself, not to impress, but for comfort and for style.” -Lindsey Wixson

It is true. I found the most comfortable dress pants and snagged them in like four colors. I didn’t always have the freedom to shop for professional wear, mostly because I didn’t do anything that required them. But then when it was time, and I had a paycheck, it was important to me to invest in comfortable professional wear. I mean, I lived in yoga pants and messy hair. Throw a floral robe in, and you wouldn’t see me for weeks. But if I’m going to do business things, I want to dress comfortably and in a way that I still feel pretty.

My life, right now, is all about comfort. I’m soaking it up while I can. I have worried and stressed myself out for too long. Great things take time and patience. You know, I watched this reality show called “Alone” with my husband where people went out into the woods to survive. This one guy built himself a fort and then basically only got up to drink water. Spoiler alert, he won. Now I’m not saying to sleep all day, but I am saying, take it easy. Doing all that extra labor, worrying about perfectionism, and proving yourself to people who don’t see your value is all a waste of your precious energy.

Freedom I’ve Found You

“Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man’s lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one’s self.” -Max Stirner

Once I adopted this mindset all of my actions gained more intention. Taking responsibility and developing a healthy amount of disciplines is more liberating than anything I’ve every committed to. That is what lead to me understanding my own value. Taking on this type of self centered mindset adds to the collective in infinite ways, but what’s interesting is that the ones we love most are usually the key reason to keep going.

Weird Life

It has been a weird two years, and this past year has been the weirdest of them all. I appreciate the weirdness. At the same time, I wonder if it’s going to keep getting weirder or if it’s going to reach a weird climax and get not so weird again? But then again, maybe it’s always been weird, and we are all way more informed now?

What do you think? Always been weird, going to get weirder, or is it going to simmer down?

So Ready

I am so excited to be at the end of my novel! AH! I’m going to read through it maybe two more times and then get ready to start sharing this work of art. I like to think of it more as a work of art than your typical novel. It’s weird, like me, but it’s rich in thought!

I am deeply inspired by it, and it got me through some tough times. I write to get the release, to feel the love, to learn, and to understand. This novel is for the wanderers and the misfits, the weirdos, the lovers, and the ones who just never thought like the rest. I am so ready for it!

Unique is Superpower

I was not born or raised to be like everyone else. My quirks are what set me apart, at least that’s what I tell myself. I’m kind of awkward, kind of emo but love glitter and pink. I’m an annoying overachiever with healthy boundaries. Weird, I know. I’m a recovering workaholic who likes to sleep. I love connection, but I require more solitude (like hours, weeks, months) than I do connection. All these qualities come together to make some strange artistic writer (me) who adores all the odd things in our world that increase our well-being.

Sidenote: I’d love more weird artist friends who understand the solitude part. I also adore the friends I have!!

“I think ‘weird’ is an interesting way to say ‘unique.’ It has a strange connotation, but weird is good. If you embrace your weirdness, you’ll be on the way to becoming who you are.” -Ben Falcone

Art Enables Us

 “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” -Thomas Merton

This quote is exactly what phase I’m in right now. Today was a good writing day for me. A lot less receptionist, a lot more artist. You know, I war against becoming that woman who is ruled by her home duties. I enjoy an organized living space, but I also adore my writing life. So there are time limits on both.

Do you have time limits for your craft?

Unmasking

“To be an artist, you don’t have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It’s just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.” -Viggo Mortensen

I’m getting back to myself and focusing on wrapping up my novel. I’m doing my best to focus on the story and what I want to say. I know what I want my readers to feel. I know that I want a good story. I just want to polish it. Focus its power without forcing too much.

Well, the point of all that is that unmasking is in process. Unleashing all my inner weirdness one day at a time.

Washing the Dust Off

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” -Pablo Picasso

The daily dust piles up when you don’t take time to wash it off. That’s why God took the 7th day to rest. The world will chew you up and spit you out with not one ounce of sympathy. It’s your job to wash off the daily dust before it causes so much buildup that it wreaks havoc on your health.

I, like Picasso, feel refreshed and renewed after art. What helps you wash away the daily life from your soul?