How do you find a parking spot?
Oh, hi friends!
Creativity—new projects, new endeavors, new anything—often needs constraints.
Where can you find these constraints?
By signing up for a class. Setting an unbreakable deadline. Having a friend hold you accountable. Reasserting your “why” to yourself. Doing the thing daily. Ticking off boxes on your calendar. Tying the task to something you do all the time (i.e. I'll write my pages right after brushing my teeth).
There are so many helpful tricks!
My friend Charlotte compared this need for containment to driving. “Have you ever been in a car with a friend when they enter an empty parking lot?” she asked me. “Next time, watch how long it takes them to pick a spot when most of them are open.”
Sooooo, are you going to drive around forever…
Or are you going to park?
"You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
Spoken by the great Toni Morrison. Found via Nitch.
I saw the new musical Miss You Like Hell this weekend at the Public Theater. Written by Quiara Alegría Hudes with lyrics by Erin McKeown and directed by Lear deBessonet, it stars Daphne Rubin-Vega and Gizel Jiménez as a mother and daughter taking a road trip—with the dramatic underpinning that Beatriz is on the verge of being deported. You will like it.
Above is the excellent song "Mothers," and here’s another one of my favorite songs, “Lioness.” Show runs until May 13, I suggest you go!
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Love, Kara