The Creative Life: Beginnings
It began with Betsy’s tweet last February.
Then my reply.
We shared a few direct messages then moved to email. The short of it is that we discovered something and decided on something, too.
What we discovered is a great relief in pouring our hearts and minds out to each other about our desires, dreams, fears, confusions, and panic. What we decided to do is leave the safety of our private email and bring our conversation public. We figure it’s not likely we’re alone in our fears, or, more importantly, alone in the relief we feel when we discover we’re not in fact, say it with us now, alone.
Over the next few weeks we’re going to mildly edit and publish our initial email conversations and when we’ve exhausted those we’re going to continue our discussion just on this blog.
Our hope is to start a giant conversation with you about all sorts of things that boil down to this: What’s it like to strike off on your own into a creative field, where do you find support and community when you do it, where do you turn when it seems everyone in your life thinks you’re crazy? We’re not into compiling top-10 lists or giving advice on how to find an accountant. We’re very much into striving toward waking up each morning feeling at peace with the tasks we have to accomplish and the comfort of knowing there’ll be food on the table.
Do chime in with a comment, eh?
