Milestone #11: Being a human in a busy world 🙄

Have I made any progress on this?

Dear Ones —

Clusters of rowan berries still cling to the mountain ash growing outside my window while a powdery autumn snowfall collects upon them, like little white hats. It’s a curious image, but not uncommon in the Rockies, where we’re a month from the Solstice but it feels as winter as winter gets. It seems a bit cliché to use the weather as a metaphor, but my staring at this mountain ash has me thinking I understand how it might be feeling: clinging to something from the past, the actual fruits of its labour, while acknowledging a new season is upon it. I feel this, as a creative soul who works on a project-by-project basis.

The creative cycle is so similar to what is happening out my window.

Milestone #11 🧭

This series is coming to a close. Next month will be the final instalment as I move to a new focus for 2025. (I’m not sure if I’ll start a new series, but it’s been fun tracking this journey with you all.) The idea of creating constraints has been a good one, and I think it has…