My creativity got swallowed up by worry and lack of contact with other humans. Turns out, that contact really does feed me. I only wrote a few poems, two scenes on my screenplay, a Christmas letter, and yes, I also helped other people with a few editing tasks.
When I finally did feel creative, I chose to make two mosaic panels, which are now attached to the outside of our house. I've always loved just diving in and breaking plates and tiles and placing bits together to form larger images and designs. It's very much like writing, only with writing you place letters, words, paragraphs or stanzas together. Not all that different of a process actually. But I think I truly needed the satisfaction of breaking stuff to free my creative soul from the lock of pandemic worry.
Now in March 2021, we're vaccinated, beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel and it is not a train--it's the promise of the gifts creative writing can bring when the process is freed to begin. Onto the next...
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