PS. I like you is a free weekly(ish) newsletter for delightfully delicious creatives.
Right now I’m on holiday and I’m taking the chance to go through old newsletters and share some of my favourites. I hope you enjoy!
I know someone who wanted to be a dinosaur when they grew up.
One day their father sat them down and said, “You cannot be a dinosaur. That’s just not how it works. You’ll have to be something else.”
Dream. Crushed.
We all suffer disappointment in our lives. At some point, we all learn we’re not going to be a dinosaur.
But that doesn’t mean we should crush our imagination along with our dreams.
The other day, my friend’s kid came up to me and said, “Aunty Kathryn, this is my Lego delivery van. I made it with my imagination.”
I made it with my imagination.
What a beautiful sentence that is.
Right now, people are dreaming of a better world. They're fighting for it. And they’re creating it.
What we create is never perfect, by any means. But this is what life is. The tender and brave exploration of “What else; what else could be?”
Allow room for that.
Screw “realistic” from time to time, and let yourself be carried by the sway of your own imagination.
You have no idea where it could take you.
And that’s the point.
Love,
– Kathryn
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“I lied about being the outdoor type.”
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PPS. I’m running a workshop in September called Rooting into the Spirit of Your Business. It’s a workshop about love and trust - for your creative work and your creative vision - however clear or fuzzy that may be.
We’ll be going through exercises in exploring how you can stay connected to your business (or simply, ‘creative work’) in turbulent times, and what you both need in order to flourish.