27 Aug joy is a form of resistance
Sometimes I think that I should post here more, even if it’s just to scream into the void. Livejournal or Xanga circa 2001, style. I’m not actually convinced that anyone reads my blog posts each sale, but this section looks so lonely ever since all my old sale blog posts were accidentally deleted last year. I have a lot of feelings and words and thoughts, all the time – my mind is never quiet – and sometimes I think it would be nice to just…come here and dump them. Take a load off. Free up some brain & heart space, especially when the world feels so heavy. It feels heavy all the time, now, doesn’t it? A large majority of it is the space around us, obviously; politics and genocide and a broken world hurtling towards an uncertain future. But I’m also struggling a lot lately with just…the passage of time. When I was in high school, John Mayer released a song called “Stop This Train.” The lyrics detailed the passage of time, and how we can’t stop our lives from moving forward, even when we can’t take the speed it’s moving in. My only child will be 6 in a few months. I’ll be 37. My stepdad just died last month. My mom is getting older. And everything feels so heavy, all the time. It’s so hard, to be soft in a cruel world; you feel EVERYTHING, all the time. Every deep emotion rends you apart. It’s crippling. And sometimes, I wish I could just…stop the train. I know I’m not the only one – I can’t be. I know for a fact that so many of you who support my business, do so because you, too, feel so deeply that it impacts you on a tangible level. We all want to know that we’re not alone in this world, in this life, in the things we feel at night in the dark as we cry from uncertainty or fear or joy or exhaustion. I want you to know that I’m here, crying too. We’ll leave the light on for one another, okay?
Our charity for this month’s sales is The Scatter Joy Project. “The Creative Mental Health Company” and I know I just admitted that I cry all the time now, but I have to tell you – I wept, when I came across this foundation. It’s everything I want & try to embody, with Half Full Creative. They say the artists will save us, and they’re right. From their website: “Artists create from a place of deep feeling—whether it’s joy and hope or sorrow and struggle. Their art is their activism. It’s how they share their journey, how they fight for change, and how they offer hope. That same spirit fuels our work. We aim to foster creativity as a means of self-expression, healing, and advocacy. Through this lens, art becomes a pathway toward not only emotional well-being but also toward systemic change.” This company is working to break down the barriers of inequality and justice, bringing mental health care to all as a universal human right.
In the words of Aelin Galathynius, “The world will be saved and remade by the dreamers.”
You can learn more about The Scatter Joy Protect here.