Creating in a Pandemic

It has been more than a month that I have been quarantining from my home in Wiscasset, Maine. My art shows have been cancelled, my music concerts and teaching schedule has been cancelled.

I am really fine, though. I miss all of my social connections, my music and art friends, my students, my family but I have had a new relationship that I have really been developing, that with myself.

I find that I spend a lot of time in the woods behind my home where there are more than 1000 acres, crisscrossed with trails that run for miles. I walk and explore like a child with renewed curiosity and it soothes me to be reunited with the child self who loved to play in the wood for hours until nightfall.

I might not be painting, singing or creating as I would like but this time does feel precious. There is nothing I really have to do with everything cancelled than be myself, be with myself and find what peace I can.

I also have really enjoyed my new fire pit that I built.

So, if you are reading this and have been beating yourself up for not doing what you think you should, maybe you can give yourself a break to just be….just do whatever you are drawn to. The creativity is still going to be nurtured and when you finally do set down to express yourself, all of it will come forward.

Sending love and hope that you are well,

Kat