What day is it - Friday? It's feeling like one big, mushy day these days.
The big news over here is that I started a podcast. It's called A Mighty Practice and the first 3 episodes are out and ready for your precious little ears.
My podcast will be similar to this newsletter, where I share the ups and downs of my creative practice. Each episode will be a mini-lesson with teachings you can apply to your own creative work. I promise to keep it practical, honest, brief, and bull-shit free.
One thing I try to speak to in this podcast is a feeling that many of us are having right now: the fear of starting something new. Or in some cases, the fear of starting over. If this moment in history is forcing us to do anything, it's to reassess how things are working for us, or in most cases, how they are not.
Maybe you're reevaluating your relationship to your job, your partner, your neighbors, your country, your screens, your sanity, your patience, your labor, your time, or your boundaries.
One thing I know to be true from years of art-making is that when we are reevaluating our position on something, it's easy to let it all unravel - to tug at one little thread and keep pulling until everything comes apart. It takes stamina and patience to accept that certain questions will not be useful to ask in this moment. We may need to come back to them later.
In the first episode of my podcast, I talk about my own fears around starting something new: in this case, a podcast. I name the fears that came up when I wanted to start this project:
Will I be any good at this? Will I have time for this commitment? Will others judge me? Will it draw unwanted attention? Will it be a big, fat, stinking failure?
This list could go on and on. And I imagine you have a similar list of fears for the thing you want to start. So I say to you this: just do it. Put some of your questions on hold. Start small. Take it in strides. Sound like an idiot. Ask for help. Laugh at yourself. And tell the internet trolls to fuuuuuck offffff. Because you're great, life is short, and we need your voice.
