when it’s self-sabotage, I find myself not doing anything at all because I’m not doing the thing I ought to do; when it’s patience, I can turn to another thing and trust there will be a right time to return to the something. I remind myself of what writer and artist Marieke Hardy told me she’s come to learn: “If the creativity is not coming to you for a project, then do something else and trust that it will get done another time.”

