I want to be your friend. That might sound desperate. But I’m not even embarrassed. I want to know the cool things you’re doing and making. I want to play at the park and climb trees. I want to share the whimsy of childhood with you and spy on the adults until their conversation gets […]
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Standing on stage, hands sweating, voice shaking: this is fear. But it’s also brave. I’ve taken the stage many times in my life, but it wasn’t until I figured out my ‘why’ that it began to get easier. Every day you (the collective you: you, me, them, etc. Not singling you out. Though this is
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Have you ever considered the word ‘muse’? And no, I don’t mean the English rock band, though they have some bangers. I mean the word itself. Muse is defined by Google as “a source of creative inspiration, or the act of thinking deeply and reflectively.” Though used in separate contexts, the two appear inextricably linked
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It’s hard to be friends with an honest journalist. Each conversation, filled with questions. Each lunch date, an interview. It’s hard to be friends with an honest journalist because the interest isn’t surface level. Sometimes it feels like they’re venturing too far but there are articles on stars and those are just a start. The
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I watched Project Hail Mary. Five stars. The premise involves a brilliant, but reluctant hero who becomes an integral part of solving an unexplainable cosmic anomaly threatening to eat the sun, and in turn, destroy humanity. Takeaways: the sun is such a strange idea. Here is this large, ethereal burning mass floating in a distant
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Sometimes my world feels small, so small that it’s somehow swallowed up in the grandness of existence. I exist in this state of limbo between meaning-making and coexisting with the world. I’ve never been “normal.” Or maybe it’s normal to think one isn’t normal. Many times, I’ve wondered if there is a place for me
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The Message On February 6, 2025 I read the words, “Hi Emma, we are pleased to invite you to be our February Bluebird Golden Pick winner!” At the time, I was sitting up to a plastic table in a church building and literally fell out of my chair and flopped on the floor, like a
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I started a music production course that talked about dissecting music you hear over the radio. Driving down the road, windows down, listening to a banger, have you ever stopped to think that each one of the sounds you’re hearing within the song are each a layer (an instrument, vocal section, or sound) within the
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Within the scope of our world resides cosmic questions to which no answers exist, at least not in our plane of consciousness. Humility lives in acknowledging that we do not hold all the answers and we find grace in accepting that’s okay. We find peace in uncertainty. There’s a strange union of mind and body
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This is about creating. I don’t care what you make, but I do care that you make something. Creating is a brave thing. And we need more bravery. Creating is risky, because it’s vulnerable. It’s risky to be brave. But what we get in return far outweighs the fear. Fear is dangerous because it’s an