So: yeah. No posts in over three months. That’s not good.
I wish I could say I’d been silent because I had this SUPER-AWESOME PROJECT that’s fired me up in all the right ways and I’ve been spending every waking moment apart from eating, sleeping, and maintaining the day job on it, but I haven’t. In fact the urge to create almost anything has been absent for some time now. Part of me is afraid it will never return.
This past week I ran out of excuses to tell myself. I’m burned out.
The good news, I’m given to understand, is that burnout can be cured. Someday I’ll be able to make things again.
The bad news is… it’s going to take a while. I’ve got close to 29 years of creative failure, political exhaustion, family estrangement, and general depression in life to work through. There’s no easy or fast way to get back to creating, and the fast ways I’ve experienced before are both a) temporary and b) extremely painful. I’ve had enough of pain.
I will continue to maintain this site, and try to put a blog post up here every so often. But expect things to remain pretty quiet here for the foreseeable future. I just have to hope that I will find my way through this dark valley… and that there will still be a world waiting for the things I want to make once I get back to the light.