The kitchen, the bathroom, the floors, and the hallway. All needed dusting, mopping, scrubbing. The fridge needed cleaning, the windows needed wiping. I’ve been simmering in resentment all May. Much of my time focused solely on chasing story after story. I felt like a child deprived of playtime. I am a child. I need to be a child. Everyday felt…
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The Artist and Her Sh*t Sandwich
(*Written in 2016, while the author was in film school) Elizabeth Gilbert talked about the concept of “shit sandwiches”, which are the not so awesome things you have to do to get to your goals. This is where the phrase “you gotta eat your shit sandwich” stems from. A phrase my sister and I usually tell each other when we’re…
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The Artist: Reluctance and Creativity Bias
For the longest time I’ve been reluctant to call myself an artist. The closest I could get is my artist temperament. Jk. It’s to accept compliments when people tell me I’m a creative person. I’ve always needed some form of external validation that what I was doing was somewhere close to being an artist. And if I wasn’t getting it,…
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An Introduction: Small but Certain Happiness
What is Small but Certain Happiness? Haruki Murakami introduced the concept in his essay “Afternoon in the Islets of Langerhans” where he describes small pleasure derived from mundane activities. For myself, this can be a cup of tea, sweet pastries, flowers in the garden, or light morning rain. Sometime in 2017, the phrase “small but certain happiness” started trending…
