There’s so much I want to say about engaging my hope as a discipline… and right now, I just can’t. My words around that are a soup. They won’t always be; of that I am certain. But for now, they aren’t coherent. So, I will attempt to revisit at another date. In the meantime…
well, first things first. Music.
From my notes, June 2024.
I didn’t share May’s playlist. Here it is!
And here is June’s playlist.
And HERE is the playlist for the first half of 2024. Enjoy.
I wrote so much in June. So much. A lot of it may very well make its way into other creative writings that I will want to share, but for now, it has been for me, to nourish my own mind and spirit. It’s given me much to think about, and has opened my eyes anew to possibilities. That has felt amazing.
Something else that has given me a lot of energy in June (wow. What a month. I feel so grateful.) is thinking about old work and looking at it and remembering a key piece of my (mostly unhealthy) mindset that I had back then. We’re talking over a decade ago. 2010. My mindset was in the gutter at that time. I didn’t even know it. I didn’t know what “mindset” even was.
What I DID know, despite this being my reality at the time, was that I had, and have, a killer eye, and that has always been the case. I got that from my father. His photography displayed a keen, killer eye and perspective. It’s something I’ve never questioned, not even once. This past month, I’ve been encouraging myself to stop questioning a lot of things about me. I didn’t realize I was still questioning, but indeed, I was.
Looking at this old work and how I folded some of it into other things to make art inspired me all over again, and I love that. This jolt of energy showed up at the right time. It could also just be the fact that it’s summertime lol. Either way, I’m glad.
See you again in a bit.