Drawing the Chicken 11: Creating a Life

(and new directions for this newsletter)

I’ve been away from screens for the past couple of weeks due to my annual eye surgery. I’m still slowly finding my way back, and over the past 2 weeks of a lot of no-screen, sit-in-a-dark-room time, I’ve been thinking a lot about what creativity means in my life. It’s all the things you read me on here, of course — the poems, the essays, the pottery, th…