In the midst of searching for a job to support my art, bombarded by doubts and old attitude habits, and aching from my second COVID-19 vaccine booster shot, I attempt to find a way to believe the ideas about creativity that I want to believe.

Content warning: discouragement, quitting, insulin, Rilke, job search, life not turning out like you planned, “Don’t have a Plan B,” second booster.

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Texts:

"Austin Kleon on the Gift of Obscurity" (In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl podcast)

Andre Gee: "Just Write"

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Music = Four Tet: "Two Thousand and Seventeen" / Johnnie Frierson: "Miracles"