The Wednesday essays

The clear morning is not coming. Not this week, and probably not next week either. The empty calendar, the moment when everything else is handled and there is finally room — these arrive very occasionally, and building a creative practice around their arrival is a plan for not building very much.

A plan that only works when everything is going well isn't a plan. It's a best-case scenario. Real life includes grief, illness, children who need more than expected, the kind of exhaustion that isn't solved by sleep. I've been writing about what actually holds when it doesn't ,the floor, the buffer, and how to come back without the guilt spiral that costs more than the gap itself.