Art is more than logging an emotion

Thank you, Shorts. (And thank you to anyone who is reading this.)

Since the startup of 'Shorts' I have been feeling less anxious, more creative, and my journal entries have gotten shorter and more positive. I actually go back and read stuff.  Shorts (and most posts here) have basically turned out to be many of the thoughts in my journal I want to remember, and have made me focus more on positive experiences for personal albums and entries too.

A journal is a conversation with oneself, but putting it out here into empty internet space seems to be making me turn whatever the feeling or thought is into something worthwhile. It is also more focused; as if putting it here gives the incentive I need to just get it right, that it makes it worth something outside myself (even if nobody else reads it, I have no idea if anyone reads this)

It's expressive, and for a while art might become something else when it is constantly kept behind closed doors. It gets that way for when when I'm only writing or talking to myself, or playing music for myself. When someone else is listening, it makes me want to make it beautiful to make them feel a certain way too.

Art is more than logging an emotion. 

This blog's original headline was "journey to feel again". Many emotionally-driven people come to feel numb, and I began this blog when I wasn't sure it was possible to be revived from that state (some days still carry that anxiety). But now I know it is, and if you are someone who feels this way I hope this blog gives you the reason or proof you need to know there is hope for people like us.

For anyone who wants to know what "Lunar Winds" is even supposed to mean, it references the wind that passes us every day here on earth; it may seem so normal, but when you really think about it a major source is the moon. It's down to our level, but it is all the way from the moon and it's worth it to stop and just pay attention to how it feels.

Life passes, thoughts pass, deep feelings pass, but that doesn't mean we have to let it pass us by.

Note: Actually posted October 12, 2017 after the flute photos. I just wanted to bury it a little farther back so that it's not on the first page for me to see and get all perfectionistic over.