COVID Clutter and Clichés
It has become a bit hackneyed.
Creative types urging people to use their quarantine to create. This and "17 Tips for Working as Home" blog posts.
Now you can write your novel (and buy my writing course).
Start your podcast (and buy my podcasting course).
Get started blogging (and buy my customized Wordpress theme).
Some are trying a new thing. Even experimentation in breadmaking is more than just comfort carbs. It is creativity.
There is a sense in which creativity during a pandemic is an example of privilege and maybe a little bit of first-world whininess.
On the other hand, I do believe "making" - whether it's bread or a blog or fancy pens - can be a process of decluttering.
“The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds and makes of all political and social life a mass illness. Without this housecleaning, we cannot begin to see. Unless we see, we cannot think.”
Thomas Merton said that back in 1968.\ It has never been a truer statement than it is on April 1, 2020.
So make your bread. Start your blog. Do your Podcast.\ Or just take a walk.
Do what you must to declutter and think.
It might be the healthiest response you could have to a pandemic.
