modern problems

Hello friend—you’re receiving this email as a part of morning reading, a daily reflection on the parts of life worth living for that you signed up for sometime last year. I've got a laundry list of additions, designs updates, and website pieces I want to make, but ultimately, I just wanted to bring this back. Thank you for reading, and a very happy New Year. 

You DecideJanuary 18th

Good morning, friend.There’s good news and bad news. Well, to be more honest, it’s just one piece of news, and it’s not entirely news either, but the good and bad bits are true. You believe that, somewhere out there, there’s a powerful cabal of insiders who could change your life overnight with the wave of a magic wand. It could be the powerful suit at the record industry who finally hears you singing and demands they fly you out stat. Or the dream client who sees your work and writes you a blank check to a new life. Or your favorite author reads your daily email and kicks down every door between here and Hollywood to get you the book deal that will have your kids in mansions for generations. The bad news isn’t that those people picked someone else. It’s that they never existed in the first place. It’s not that the dream is wrong—it’s the right of every person putting effort into making something worthwhile to want that art to do all the heavy lifting. The ultimate fantasy of any artist is that the thing they create will stand for itself, not just in it’s own right as a creation, but in the accolade and success it brings the artist. The good news is: those same people don’t exist. It’s not that they haven’t called you because they don’t think you can cut it—they’re too deeply and fundamentally wrapped up in the drama of their own lives to be able to pass judgment on yours. The news is that you get to decide.You get to decide, today, whether to take your craft seriously. And no one—no one—can either take that away from you, or take it seriously for you.You decide. Journal Prompt: What have you been waiting for someone to ask you to do more of?