I think a lot when it comes to creativity. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been coming up with creative hopes and ideas. In college, those creative hopes and ideas felt stifled and it wasn’t until after I graduated this past December that I felt I could open the windows and dust out the old room, giving creativity a space once more. Like most people, I’ve been gifted with an unexpected and great amount of free time this spring. This has lead to a great deal of thinking, and self-reflection. Self-reflection made me aware of one flawed pattern in my creative life: I never pursue my creative ideas.
Whether it is writing, recipes, or photography, I never actually pursue the hopes and ideas I spend so much time thinking about. Nothing ever gets off the ground and out of my mind. It is formed in my mind, and then only exists in my mind. It has taken me 24 years to finally decide that I’m not going to accept that as “good enough.”
In my adult life, I’ve experienced firsthand the different effects of passivity and activity when it comes to actually living life. Life is more fulfilling, exciting, hopeful and tangible the moment we decide to take action, to become present and control the things we can.
I started this space 4 years ago because I wanted to get my photography out there, but I never ended up sharing it with the world. Today, I’m deciding to re-visit this page and use it as my space for writing, recipes, and photography, the things that really amp me up. Today, I’m taking that first step, that first action, to making creative hopes and ideas a little more concrete.
Today, I’m showing up.
“Start. Start small. Start slow. But start. Don’t go to the ground never having tried for something good, something worthy, something that broke your heart with the injustice of it all.”
Hannah Brencher
Kelliemarie Mash 