It is so very hard to go about one's day "pretending" that it's business as usual, esp when it's easy to presume the world around is spiraling out of control. Thank you for addressing this heart matter and offering that our "proper response to injustice is lament, to suffering is grief, and to despair is resilient, defiant hope." ♡ this so much!
Thank you, Laura. The dissonance of pretending things are “normal” when so much is unraveling… it’s so real. That line you pulled out is one I return to often—I’m grateful it resonated with you too. Holding space with you for honest lament and defiant hope.
Thank you for sharing. I just came across your work and am so sorry about your daughter. There is so much grief individually and collectively and all of this really resonated. It sounds like we have similar artistic practices as I am a painter and writer too and even just wrote about doing blackout poetry. Looking forward to reading more from you.
Jocelyn, I’m so glad our paths crossed! Thank you for your kind words about my daughter—your tenderness means a lot. And how lovely that we share creative practices! Looking forward to connecting more!
Like you and so many, I have been in a near constant state of grief and a loss of well-being due to so many factors including my health, my mother's mental illness, and now the state of the country. I don't know what I would do without the limitlessness of creativity in music and writing. My largest grief right now is how so many other things in my life seem rooted in scarcity, sometimes in big ways but often in small ways.
Kellie, thank you for sharing this so vulnerably. I feel the ache and am nodding along with all of it—the constant grief, the scarcity, the complexity of holding all that while still reaching for creativity. I’m so grateful you have music and writing as a refuge. May they continue to be a source of both rest and life for you.
“I’m choosing to live with purpose, on a mission in light of it all. I choose to move forward thoughtfully, in defiance of the Terrible Things™. I choose creativity as resistance.”
It is so very hard to go about one's day "pretending" that it's business as usual, esp when it's easy to presume the world around is spiraling out of control. Thank you for addressing this heart matter and offering that our "proper response to injustice is lament, to suffering is grief, and to despair is resilient, defiant hope." ♡ this so much!
Thank you, Laura. The dissonance of pretending things are “normal” when so much is unraveling… it’s so real. That line you pulled out is one I return to often—I’m grateful it resonated with you too. Holding space with you for honest lament and defiant hope.
Thank you for sharing. I just came across your work and am so sorry about your daughter. There is so much grief individually and collectively and all of this really resonated. It sounds like we have similar artistic practices as I am a painter and writer too and even just wrote about doing blackout poetry. Looking forward to reading more from you.
Jocelyn, I’m so glad our paths crossed! Thank you for your kind words about my daughter—your tenderness means a lot. And how lovely that we share creative practices! Looking forward to connecting more!
Like you and so many, I have been in a near constant state of grief and a loss of well-being due to so many factors including my health, my mother's mental illness, and now the state of the country. I don't know what I would do without the limitlessness of creativity in music and writing. My largest grief right now is how so many other things in my life seem rooted in scarcity, sometimes in big ways but often in small ways.
Kellie, thank you for sharing this so vulnerably. I feel the ache and am nodding along with all of it—the constant grief, the scarcity, the complexity of holding all that while still reaching for creativity. I’m so grateful you have music and writing as a refuge. May they continue to be a source of both rest and life for you.
Thank you Kristin! This is exactly the tension I feel much of the time!
Yes—that tension can be such a constant griefy companion. I’m grateful the words named something you feel too. Here right alongside you. <3
“I’m choosing to live with purpose, on a mission in light of it all. I choose to move forward thoughtfully, in defiance of the Terrible Things™. I choose creativity as resistance.”
YES💙 This is what my soul needed to read today.
I’m so glad. I see it in you! ✨