let it be awful
I've been playing around with paint recently. I'm not good at painting, but that's the whole point.
Allowing the work to be terrible to a joyful kind of letting go. Without the pressure of trying to meet anyone expectations (including my own), there's a freedom to play, to wonder, to explore.
And isn't this why we create—to play, to wonder, to explore?
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