ask kitty
Vol 4
Blake M., Medellín, Colombia
Do you ever feel lost? Making a living from creating is often inexorably daunting... What are some of the things you do to get out of the feeling of being stagnate/uninspired?
Jasmine A., San Pedro, CA
how do you make magic in times of darkness?
Dear Blake and Jasmine,
Thank you for the beautiful questions. For me they are bound together. Our shared experience these past 9 months has left me feeling lost - like I’m floating in a void. Occasionally I will touch down in a moment of clarity, grasp a sliver of insight, and then I‘m off again.
I don’t often feel stagnant or uninspired - for that I am grateful. However I have been overwhelmed by fear, the darkness crashing down on me like a wave. In those moments I feel like a tiny child in a vast, dark room. I try to tiptoe myself out of that terrifying room the same way I did when I was a tiny child - through my imagination. I fantasize, I imagine beauty, grace and light. I grasp on to that tendril of light and pull myself up.
This conversation is helping - the sense that I’m not alone in sending out these tendrils. We are making a net of light that will hold us up in these dim days.
Stay well,
Kitty