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when you need a little push, a spoonful of motivation, watch this video from Ira Glass.

Today I had the day off, so after my morning run i made my way to Julius Meinl to sip some coffee and dive into some creative readings/thoughts/projects.  It was the first time in a really long that I was able to escape from the things around me, drink coffee and jot down notes and ideas without having to keep track of the time.  I was switching between my journal, a book called “Living the Creative Life” by Rice Freeman-Zachery, and my Lucky Peach Magazine (a quirky and brilliant magazine about food).   I love it when I am able to teeter between art and food things, it’s like a creative manifesto that never gets old.  Anyways, as I was enjoying my coffee and bouncing around new art and food ideas in my head, this paragraph from Living the Creative Life stuck out at me so I wanted to share it.  It’s a little confirmation for all those folks who have chosen to embrace their creativity head on; those who fearlessly follow their creative instincts into unmarked territory, rather than getting tangled up in the muck of a prescribed life.  Cheers to the brave, the bold and the bodacious people of the world!

“But for most people, true creativity is pretty scary.  It demands things of you.  I requires attention and sacrifice.  Think how much easier it is to take a regular nine-to-five job, do the things most people take for granted:  spending the evening watching TV, sleeping through the night without waking up to scribble or sketch or check on the progress of something drying in the studio.  Think of that, and then think about how flat your life would be.  Creativity, if it holds you in its thrall, is worth every sacrifice, every risk, every moment of looking at life from a slightly different perspective from your family and friends and neighbors.  It is, in short, life itself.”

Sometimes we just need to take a moment to check in with ourselves, then make art about it.