trusting the ebb and flow of your creativity…

With regard to creative energy, respect that it comes and goes. In a way, I think it is good to not try to be to disciplined. In times when we need peace, or have a lot going on in other parts of life, it is important to have faith the urges to make / write things will always return. (Once in my 20’s I got a Fortune Cookie that read, “Art is your Fate; don’t Debate.”)

It’s like these floating Kelp leaves, the sea washes them this way, and that way, but they remained anchored to the floor of the sea, with their poetically named “Holdfast.” The base keeps them stable, but the plant grows. In prime conditions they can grow an astonishing two feet per day.

Flowing Kelp