Creative Living Diaries is a Substack of personal essays at the intersection of creativity, spirituality, and everyday life. Through reflections on art, imagination, memory and intuition, I explore what it means to live authentically in a world that often asks us to do the opposite.

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the girl on the halfshell

A used record store opened up in my neighborhood, and even though I felt uncomfortable shopping alone in such a small place, the music was important, so I went and began to sift through the bins of albums. Each one was like a portal into a different time, a different way of seeing the world, and myself.

The Things I Said and Didn’t Say

I took detailed mental notes of where I was, this environment, this group. Certainly not all, but most of the people I met were traditional in their outlook. They dressed conventionally and had conventional desires. My hypervigilance began to reshape me into someone who could be accepted here, someone who could survive.