There is only space in your life if you make it.
& now is the time to make some
7 weeks are left of 2024. It’s not a huge amount of time, but it’s enough to bring a few things to a close in preparation for next year. Endings are important because they make space, and space is important if you want to make changes in your life.
I know nobody wants to think about New Year’s resolutions in the middle of November. I get it, we’re in the midst of Q4 madness, but I like to think of these last 7 weeks of the year almost like “the night before” a big day.
If you need to wake up at 6am for a big day, you don’t go to sleep at 1am, you start preparing at 8pm the night before.
What I’m saying is this is your chance to start creating space so that you can do more of the things your heart is telling you to do next year.
Now is the time to do it.
The Future of This Newsletter
In the interest of walking the talk, I am doing exactly this right now. As the trees change color and shed their leaves around me, a lot of things are coming to an end (Frame by Frame for example) in my life.
I am doing this because I want more time and space to write. That’s the thing I want to do more of next year and instead of waiting until January 1st rolls around, I’m starting now.
Writing is something that makes me feel very good in my body. I would actually call it my first love. Is that a nerdy thing to say? Yeah, probably… but it’s true. When I write, I just see things in a different light. It feels right, and I can only say that about a few things in life.
I began seriously writing when I was 13 years old. During Winter Break of 7th grade, in my parents’ living room, I was suddenly possessed and wrote a hundred pages of a fiction novel set decades in the future… I have no idea how that suddenly happened or where that came from, but I credit that experience for the discovery that I am a person that enjoys making things. Prior to that, I did not think I was creative because I found the arts and crafts we were made to do in elementary school were boring and pointless!
Anyway, this newsletter is something I’ve maintained in the background over the last few years, more or less as an afterthought, even though I really enjoy doing it. I only use the last 2% of my mental RAM that I have left over from all my other projects to write these, and that really feels like deprioritizing one of things I most enjoy doing. That changes today!
It has a new home on Substack, and I’m looking forward to posting on here more often. This feels like a logical (small) step towards writing a book, and you can be a part of the journey.
I just want to say thank you to all of you for your support over the years as my creative endeavors evolve and change shape… I love contemplating life and my emotions and sharing what I discover with all of you… and it’s a real joy to receive your lovely responses and your kind words encouraging me to continue.
How exciting! I‘ve long enjoyed your thoughts via video and look forward to reading. I think you‘ll find this is the most supportive writing community going. Welcome!
how beautiful! this just makes sense. i’ve always been so touched and moved by your videos, but also by the way you articulate, write your stories. excited for what’s to come, and what a joy was it to read this. on that note, i resonate with you on your passion for writing. i had my first journal when i was 9, and although, i wrote very rubbish things at first, when i was writing, it genuinely felt like a meditation, almost like time stopped. it sort of gave me this feeling of escapism!