Creative Rest. Everyday Creative.
Or take a break.
Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes.
If it were always a fist or always stretched open,
you would be paralyzed.
—Rumi
(Taking a rest is a good thing.)
I recently read Eliza Wheeler’s new substack post on creative rest. In this beginning of the year with new year’s resolutions, and new routines, and new projects, and new beginnings, I liked the idea of taking a rest. A pause. To gather or go through the creativeness of our lives— the stuff that already exists. Examine it with fresh eyes, or just peruse and browse to see what may spark. The goal not being to do anything, really, but just to be and sit with the idea of creativity.
So I’m going to lean into this idea. Not necessarily to stop being creative, or to create, but to just sort of be.
Yours in Creativity,
Bridgitte
Being before doing is sort of my mantra! I also follow Anna Brones who wrote about letting Jan be an “in between” month rather than one for high pressure goals--lean into the dark, the cold, the germination season and just be.