Thoughts From My Office

Yep, this is going to be a thing.

Yep, this is going to be a thing.

I wanted to write a longer post this week, but I’m still putting it together in my head (and on paper, and in the conversations L and I have over dinner). It has to do with discipline and specificity and creativity and work and life and love and rest and balance, which probably explains why I haven’t written it yet.

In some ideal world, I’d like to write a longer essay every week, plus these short thoughts every Friday, plus one guest post — but I’m not even sure that’s my ideal world, because if it were, I’d be prioritizing that instead of writing music or putting an extra half hour towards the piano every day, which is what I’ve been doing all of this week.

All of that practice has extremely extremely shaped what I want to write about discipline and creativity (and specificity and work and life and love and rest and balance, and probably earning money in there somewhere too), so it all fits together — the work and the music and the freelancing and the life and everything I’m thinking about right now.

(Also, don’t think that I’m not thinking about our current political situation. L and I devote probably half of our evening dinner conversations to politics, and I can feel all of that current-event-stress taking…