After the opening of the art show, I finally had a moment to reflect on the year it’s been and phew what a year it’s been.
I love making lists to manifest goals in the first week of January, and reading back on things I wrote over the course of the year to see what I actually learned. I write to centre myself and also because i’m obsessed with self improvement (ie: I iterate and overthink every single thing I say and write, before AND after I say/write it. This parallels conveniently with the process of developing the perfect New Yorker cartoon caption. But anyway.)
Last December was weird (personal/geopolitical upheaval and creative confusion) and wrote this post in an effort to contain in a box all the things i’d managed to achieve that year.
self-portraits
I tend to shrink away from making things I can’t immediately define or justify, as if they won’t hold up to outside scrutiny, and this contributes in a huge way to creative blocks. In 2024, one major goal is just to pay attention to what feels authentic, sit with ideas longer, and trust that the words will materialize. (And also to write a lot more, in …
This entire year has been weird, but December brings STRANGE SILVER LININGS coming through all at once. With much effort, I sat down in a coffee shop wrote a list of all the notable events and accomplishments that happened this year, by the month; where I failed, where I succeeded, what I learned.
