Right now most everyone in the world is having to adjust to a “new normal”. People are working from home, homeschooling their kids instead of working, or working at home while homeschooling their kids. There’s all kinds of advice about “make sure you shower” or “don’t sit around in your sweats and yoga pants”; or “set aside a workspace and have routines”. Every person I talk to or interact with online is posting about how hard everything is or how different their lives are. Friends, family, and fellow designers and creatives are talking about how they will be tackling that goal they never had the time to work on or learn that thing they’ve been thinking of learning; they’re writing new songs and poems, painting and making more posts and videos, building epic projects with their kids. The thing is, I’m not talking about how different my life is. Because for me— my life has been about doing all of these things that much of the world isn’t used to doing on a normal, everyday basis, and I’ve been doing them for years. 

I’m still waking up, getting dressed, making coffee and starting my days the way I always do, I make sure my kids are fed and we all walk up the stairs together and start homeschooling like its any other day. But it’s not like any other day and that’s where this all begins… my thoughts about it all are circular and a bit confusing when all I want is for them to be linear. I want to know how I’m supposed to feel and how I can best live during these unprecedented days, things aren’t normal. But until they are, I just wanted to show up here honestly, with a little vulnerability even if it doesn’t make sense, cause most things just don’t right now, and that’s ok I guess.