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Jo McCrory is a writer and artist living in northern California.

  • July haiku 26:31

    The theme of perfectionism/success causing stagnation or a lack of creativity has come up a few times this week; perfectionism has kept me from doing many things, and this blog is part of an effort to make myself uncomfortable on purpose to drive creativity. It’s working? I don’t know; it’s hard to judge.

    I guess this is everyone’s reminder to embrace your drafts, let go of your perfectionism, and pour all that messy life out into your medium. As a friend recently told me, keep creating – something is bound to stick.

    Perfectionism
    Is the enemy of truth
    Nothing to fear here

  • July haiku 25:31

    So many things are in flux right now. On the one hand, there are a lot of good things: new creative energy, making new friends, finding new things that inspire me, getting to share it with my little audience. On the other hand, there are a lot of less good things. The problem with healing one old injury is that now you notice all the other injuries you were ignoring because that one took up all your energy. You find new traumas you didn’t know you had picked up along the way, and then you get to figure out how to juggle those with everything else.

    Devastation, joy
    Death, rebirth, phoenix rises
    Shake it off and go