Birthday of the soul
Good morning my dear fellow Humans. You might have noticed that while I have announced my goal of writing to you every day with a tidbit or two about creativity or life or something vaguely related, it doesn’t always happen.
I began this newsletter to see if inspiration would visit every day. Honestly, though, it hasn’t been the lack of inspiration that prevents me from sending you something every day as per my original intention. It is instead the lack of planning my day appropriately.
I think this deserves more scrutiny. If inspiration, in her ever-helpful way, is here waiting for me the moment I put my hands on the keyboard (or a few moments afterward — she always likes me to go ahead and get started without her) then my failing to keep my appointments with her is another entirely different situation.
It’s easy to let life slip by. It’s one of the reasons I try (and sometimes succeed) to send an email to you every day. I can look back on the stream of emails I’ve sent and see a veritable catalog of thought about creativity. There is a sense of accomplishment there. In these daily emails there is movement forward.
The markers of when we put our creative work out in the world - these are big days, akin to a birthday. In a way they are indeed a birthday, because when we put our work out in the world, our soul is born just a little bit more.
I hope your Wednesday is delightfully creative.
Until tomorrow (or soon after that),
Philip