8 things I learned after selling 90% of my possessions (plus a couple of regrets)

“I had stored these dreams of the future me in labelled plastic tubs: wools, silks, cottons, linens, rayons, shirting, crepes, velvets, voiles. They contained the lives I would have lived, places I would have visited, friends I would have made.”

Where do I start?  It has only been three weeks since I posted my last song, but it feels like months.  I have been putting this update off, and like any good procrastination the longer you keep it up it the harder it becomes to start again...

Back at home, Monday.  Following on from the shell-on-the-windowsill theme of the previous day with trinket on a shelf.

One of the challenges to staying creatively productive is fitting the creative work in with the rest of your life.  Before I went off to study music I worked a series of 9 - 5 jobs, however I only ever worked four days a week for most of that time.  I tried my best to use my day off for creative projects, and I did accomplish a whole lot of creative things during those years.  Ultimately, however, I found the constant shift between corporate and creatively mindsets exhausting.  I think I'd be better at it now that I have some robust processes in place, but I do find it much easier when my work and creative practice are more closely related.  My mind is never far away from music or art now, and my social circle is full of people who understand and support my lifestyle.