In December I decided that 2013 would be "The first year of living artfully". In part I hoped that meant that I would find a way to make a living off of my creative output. That didn't happen... next week I start a brand new "traditional" job.
But just as that's happening I received an incredibly touching email inspired by
slowthepulse.aws.af.cm/ which reminded me that at the end of the day, no matter how small my audience may be; I am touching lives.
I don't know how to grow my audience to the point where my output will sustain me, but I do know that I must keep on writing, and composing, and creating visuals and websites. That's just something I need to do.
SO, for the next while; a lot of hard work to get some fairly mundane things - like paying bills and building a body of professional web design & development work - and writing in very small cracks in my day. But clearly that has to happen, so 2013 in the end will have been the first year of living artfully; a year where the value of my own art has become very clear to me. It matters, and that is enough for me to keep sharing it.