I am currently dragging myself across the finish line where my college education is concerned. I am in the last couple of weeks of the last session of the last semester of my journey. On May 11th, I will have graduated officially and I will finally have a bachelor's degree. Will I carry on and get a higher level of education? I don't know. All I know right now is I'm a little bit over it. Ready to be done.

As such, my creative output has increased a bit in anticipation. I finished the cloudburst hoop I showed in my last post and now I am working on finishing a more involved hoop (I showed what I had done of it as well on the post before the previous one). I'm excited about diving back into things and devoting more of my time to my creativity. 

I know I haven't been posting weekly even though I said (somewhere) that I was going to. I know I haven't kept up with the challenges that I was so excited about at the beginning of the year. I struggle with this so much because I create imaginary situations in my head in which people are disappointed in me, rolling their eyes at my lack of follow-through. So my inclination is to come to this space with apologies and explanations, and I know that's neither necessary or helpful. I may or may not complete the challenges I set out for myself. My creativity will continue to exist in its own ebbs and flows (as I have remarked upon before) and absolutely nothing important (outside of myself) hinges upon it. Anyone who would look upon such things with judgement is not someone whose opinion would carry much weight with me anyway. So, why is it so hard to start strong, falter, and then show up again without apologizing for it? I do not know, but I am working on it.

Anyway, I'm going to share some of my photos over the past month or so with you and hopefully next time I come back to this space I will have a finished piece of hoop art to share. I've decided to switch up my rules on my challenges so that I end up with 52 [whatevers] by the end of the year because it will free me up from needing them to be completed in each particular week.

Cactus Bloom-to-be

Prickly Pears

Once Grand

Electric

Drive

Libe


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