It’s good to have two passions
Today, I was talking with my friend Craig Carrick (musician, festival volunteer, Guitars for Kids benefit creator), and I mentioned, “I think about the business of music too much; it’s exhausting.”
He chuckled while replying, “Me too!”
I realized when I hung up the phone how important my other passion (mainly writing) is with keeping me excited, and sane.
I enjoy writing poems, almost as much as I enjoy playing guitar and writing songs; however, I have no larger ambition with my poems than to write them, post them, and maybe self-publish a little chapbook; and to keep writing. I feel no pressure–illusion–to make money from it, which might be why I love it so much!
And writing poems doesn’t cost me anything, except the time spent doing it. (OK, and the coffee I drink at Moon Winks Cafe, my office away from my office.)
I think it’s valuable for creatives to have a second passion they can dabble with doing, for fun, free from the stress of trying to “make it” with that medium.
Art begs art. Go make some art today.
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