On Creativity

Happy New Year!

Can we still exchange this greeting so deep into January? I would think so, as this is the first article I’ve sent out since we crossed into 2022. My cat Tino is already exhausted, but I — I am just getting started.

Despite the arc of time since my last update, I have still been writing. However, my writing has not settled into the usual resting place of a newsletter or blog post. The writing I have been doing has instead taken the shape of edits for my book (coming as soon as February), and in many deep-dive journal entries I write only for myself.

These are personal journals that help me untangle any knots that the past year left me tied me up in, as well as journal entries that helped me lay down the foundation for this year’s goals and this year’s intentions.

It’s the act of writing that has always served me well when I need to decipher any feelings that swell and rise above my head or crash and foam at my feet. In fact, looking back, writing travel blogs, writing long, elaborate letters to friends, and writing learning programs for my students or coaching clients — all of this writing has been my most impactful modality of expression.

Writing is how I best connect, communicate, and create. Some have their art. Others have their music. I have my words.