CREATIVE INSPIRATION
Storms on the Horizon
This might be my last Creative Inspiration newsletter/blog on Substack.com. For the past two weeks, I have reached out to Substack tech support via the site’s contact, social media site “X”, and email. Friend and writer, X.P. Callahan, even asked someone she knows on the design team at Substack. Many thanks, X.P!! But after 2 weeks, zero response. Nada. Substack has been strangely silent.
Yes, I love writing these blogs to share my love of art and poetry, and hoping to inspire you to create in whatever way moves you. I also love hearing from you, and the interactive capability is as important as the writing.
So, even as I have diminishing hope that the Substack corporate machine will actually respond to my requests for help, I am searching for an online platform suited to both writing and art. Given that it has been several weeks since the Comments button was operational, I am moving quickly to find an alternative solution. Something I do not tolerate very well is feeling powerless. Ditto, a problem with no solution.
***Some Good News!*** My poem, “The Intimate Life of a Solitary Citrus Tree,” was just published in Plant People, An Anthology of Environmental Artists, Vol. 4. Thanks so much to PlantsandPoetry.org, also on FB (plantsandpoetry) and IG (@plantsandpoetryhouse). Find more information and order the book here.
Meanwhile, I am anxiously awaiting the arrival of our third hurricane in less than three months. Milton is predicted to arrive on Florida’s west coast midweek as a Category 3 hurricane.
I wrote this poem last week, thinking about a North Carolina friend who was caught in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.
I believe that when we are bombarded with problem after problem, violent event after violent event, horrific images, hateful and cruel language without sufficient space to recover and heal, all these things coming at us begin to elicit one long unbroken and continuous string of physical and emotional reactions. Exhausting!
As of today, the Comment button is still not working, despite resetting and triple checking my Substack settings. If you have the Substack app, you can send me a message via “Chat”, or you can email me directly or at celestialartworks2021@gmail.com
Wishing you a week of many colors, crisp autumn air, blue skies. I have memories, and as Jane Fonda said in a recent interview, “Hope is a muscle.” Let’s exercise it often! Celeste
What does Hope look like to you? One of mine:
One more thing to think about:
