Thank you for sharing this experience. As a mother also, I applaud you for not giving up on your art. I also must say how impressed I am with your husband's support of you. How lovely to see that partnership in service of your soul.
Aw, thank you for reading, Sara. I'm sorry for missing your comment. I'm still working on blending the worlds of motherhood and art, but it doesn't feel as hard—at least not every day. I'm trying to put the writing first when and where I can. And yes, my husband has always supported my writing. It's been harder since we've become parents though because he fights for time for his art just as much as I do and sometimes that puts us at odds with each other. We have to remember that we're on the same team and there is space for both of us to do our art. We're still choosing each other every day while also learning how to choose art, too.
You’re already doing it- you do it all the time. I reckon it will always be hard but the hard changes and takes on different forms.
That’s been one of my greatest takeaways from parenting- the hard changes/it’s always hard, but similarly the magic shifts and grows and becomes more magical, I think.
“I’m not really a real writer”….4,000 words later “I haven’t even gotten to why I started writing this because I’ve been busy telling you guys everything leading up to it” 😉😉😉
Sorry just had to tease you a little 😜. I’m glad you got to go to all those sessions! Those poems are wonderful. It’s so funny to me hearing people have the opposite experience of eating out alone or going to an event by yourself and that sense of self is the luxury, when for me being by myself is always the default and the thing I’m always aching to be different. I guess we always need or want the balance of what we don’t normally have
I totally hear you, love. I remember when I left Atlantic Records and got a new job where I worked remotely. I had an apartment off Hollywood Blvd but I lived alone. I felt like I lost all my friends because they were so entrenched in the Atlantic culture, and now I was outside of that. I was so restless and I'd go out to eat alone in Hollywood, which was always so busy, making me feel even more lonely. It was hard. And even now as much as I crave being alone, I miss having a connected friend group. It's like my life is so full, where would I even put it? But yet, I still crave it. Wish we lived closer! We could totally plan dinners and little writer nights. I'd love that.
Ooof it’s so weird when life is both simultaneously full and yet you’re also wishing you had certain things that you don’t, or that certain aspects of your life need more filling. I wish we lived closer too!!! Dinners and writers nights would be amazing 🤗🤗🤗. Maybe we can pick up our book club again sometime!
I love hearing your thoughts and feelings along your journey. As someone who’s been following you forever, it makes me happy to see the person you are now and excited about the person you’ll become. You are special Jessy. You may not always feel it, but you are. And your husband, son, family, friends, and admirers see this. Thank you for taking us on your journey.
You're so sweet, Roy. It's hard to see myself. I don't remember much of who I was, like it's hard to see how far I've come. Life feels like it's moved so fast. I really appreciate you saying that, though. I can never tell what I'm even offering here haha so I'm glad to hear you've found value in it.
Thank you for sharing this experience. As a mother also, I applaud you for not giving up on your art. I also must say how impressed I am with your husband's support of you. How lovely to see that partnership in service of your soul.
Aw, thank you for reading, Sara. I'm sorry for missing your comment. I'm still working on blending the worlds of motherhood and art, but it doesn't feel as hard—at least not every day. I'm trying to put the writing first when and where I can. And yes, my husband has always supported my writing. It's been harder since we've become parents though because he fights for time for his art just as much as I do and sometimes that puts us at odds with each other. We have to remember that we're on the same team and there is space for both of us to do our art. We're still choosing each other every day while also learning how to choose art, too.
You’re already doing it- you do it all the time. I reckon it will always be hard but the hard changes and takes on different forms.
That’s been one of my greatest takeaways from parenting- the hard changes/it’s always hard, but similarly the magic shifts and grows and becomes more magical, I think.
Thank you for this, Ava. You're right. I am fucking doing it. It may look differently than I thought it would, but I'm doing it.
“I’m not really a real writer”….4,000 words later “I haven’t even gotten to why I started writing this because I’ve been busy telling you guys everything leading up to it” 😉😉😉
LOL I'm the worst. I always start wanting to say one thing and then end up somewhere different entirely.
That’s what makes it into a story though!!
Sorry just had to tease you a little 😜. I’m glad you got to go to all those sessions! Those poems are wonderful. It’s so funny to me hearing people have the opposite experience of eating out alone or going to an event by yourself and that sense of self is the luxury, when for me being by myself is always the default and the thing I’m always aching to be different. I guess we always need or want the balance of what we don’t normally have
I totally hear you, love. I remember when I left Atlantic Records and got a new job where I worked remotely. I had an apartment off Hollywood Blvd but I lived alone. I felt like I lost all my friends because they were so entrenched in the Atlantic culture, and now I was outside of that. I was so restless and I'd go out to eat alone in Hollywood, which was always so busy, making me feel even more lonely. It was hard. And even now as much as I crave being alone, I miss having a connected friend group. It's like my life is so full, where would I even put it? But yet, I still crave it. Wish we lived closer! We could totally plan dinners and little writer nights. I'd love that.
Ooof it’s so weird when life is both simultaneously full and yet you’re also wishing you had certain things that you don’t, or that certain aspects of your life need more filling. I wish we lived closer too!!! Dinners and writers nights would be amazing 🤗🤗🤗. Maybe we can pick up our book club again sometime!
Ahh I would love that. That was such a special time for me. I wish we could've finished it haha.
Haha Pressley had other ideas 😆
haha right! He's beaten to the rhythm of his own drum from the very beginning.
I love hearing your thoughts and feelings along your journey. As someone who’s been following you forever, it makes me happy to see the person you are now and excited about the person you’ll become. You are special Jessy. You may not always feel it, but you are. And your husband, son, family, friends, and admirers see this. Thank you for taking us on your journey.
You're so sweet, Roy. It's hard to see myself. I don't remember much of who I was, like it's hard to see how far I've come. Life feels like it's moved so fast. I really appreciate you saying that, though. I can never tell what I'm even offering here haha so I'm glad to hear you've found value in it.