Welcome to The Sunday Project!

Borne out of a season of slowness and stillness, The Sunday Project is a space to document my creative journey with writing; here's to starting and to letting go, to the journey and adventure of creativity. Welcome!

It's uncomfortable starting something new, because it's in doing so that you're confronted by the imperfections of your work. As it’s released into the world, ripe for the reading of others, you read your words with different eyes. The eyes that were once encouraging as you set pen to paper become objective and critical. And yet, it's only in starting that the journey begins and space grows for learning and progress to follow. It's the challenge of starting and of letting go.

For me, one of the greatest blessings of the past 18 months has not only been more time, but also a deeper awareness of how to spend my time in ways that best sustain, nourish and nurture myself and my voice. Collectively, we have disconnected from routines which were unhealthy and unsustainable, exhausting work-life balances and unrelenting commutes. These daily rhythms which once felt obligatory, now sit before us with a huge element of choice. Have we ever had more autonomy over how we spend our time than we do in this present moment?

So often, I think we make life about the flying high moments; the moments of promotion and progress, achievement and constant movement, and yet in the stillness and the slowness imposed by the pandemic, we've dissembled the versions of ourselves who arrived at 2020. In a forced unplug, we have in fact found reconnection with ourselves and with others. We have rooted ourselves in slowing down and reorienting our values around the people and moments in life which are truly important.

As the January lockdown hit, I began reading and learning from the wonder that is ‘The Artist’s Way’ - Julia Cameron’s practical and profound guidebook to rediscovering your creative self. Page by page, the lesson becomes clear: to take your creative self seriously and to dedicate time and energy to your creative passions. Creativity looks different for us all; it could be photographing your surroundings as you go about your day or running in the morning, it could be singing a little louder, dancing, painting or baking a cake, whatever it is that makes your soul sing. For me, it's writing, and as I spend more time growing a sense of safety and identity in putting pen to paper, it becomes easier to accept the inevitable imperfections of creativity and to value this process as much as the final product.

I'm learning it’s a whole lot easier to read about creativity than it is to actually to begin(!), to commit time and energy to the pursuit of a passion. So here's my start and my letting go, to the journey and adventure of creativity.

Welcome to The Sunday Project!