Pen of the Beloved 7/14/23 Pen of the Beloved 7/14/23

Embracing Slow Creativity

Slow creativity, the practice of creating with intention and purpose is slow. It’s quiet and sometimes, possibly boring. For me, it looks like consuming less and choosing silence. It is paying attention to sunrises and sunsets, favorite albums, and favorite poems that exist not always as influence and inspiration, but as enjoyment. Creativity isn’t always doing, many times it’s just being. Choosing to create at a slower pace and even in a more private way allows me to know that my gifts are not commodities. This way of living teaches me to treat creativity like the gift and expression from God that it is.

6/29/21 6/29/21

4 Ways to Stay Creative | Semi-Quarantine Edition

Pen of the Beloved 12/28/20 Pen of the Beloved 12/28/20

Reflecting on Creativity During a Pandemic| 25 Days of Creativity 2020

In March 2020, for many of us, life shifted. What we knew to be concrete and sure eerily began to be subdued by fear, quarantining, and an inevitable lockdown. We never thought that by December 2020 what felt so heavy in March would still feel so very real in December.

8/11/20 8/11/20

How to Push Past Creative Blocks

5/22/20 5/22/20

Hard Beautiful Work |A Musing on Creativity

3/31/20 3/31/20

Creativity in Isolation

During this time of social distancing and self-isolating, I am increasingly aware of my habits; what I gravitate to out of boredom and what I find myself trying to do, but lacking the discipline to implement. Time seems to have expanded and in all of this extra space lies all of the promises of making choices and seeing the fruit of those choices.