Toehold

A collection of personal essays about holding onto your sense of creative identity when life overwhelms. Exploring the intersection of inner and outer lives through the themes of forgiveness, failure, attending to self, connecting to the imagination and finding some magic.

“How do you keep in touch with your creative identity and keep believing in it as a vital – essential – part of yourself? How do you maintain the confidence or curiosity in developing the skills and talents required to make creative work? How do you maintain the hope that sometime, somewhere you will have the time and energy and resources to do this?

When material life exhausts, disorientates, or demeans you, how do you stop that poisoning the curiosity and audacity with which you need to experiment, learn, and tinker. How do you sustain the kind of effort, curiosity, and desire needed to risk vulnerability and failure?” – From the introduction to Toehold