This morning, I read a newsletter by Sarah March titled I'm going to make a zine. She wrote about going back to making things with her hands, and making a zine to do so. But she couldn't find the inspiration, so she made a zine about exactly that.
It made me think of the post I wrote after the Christmas Holidays just as a bridge from not writing or posting for weeks, to doing so again. The thing about bridges is that it doesn't matter what they contain, what they're about, even how good they are. The important thing is that they get something started.
It also made me think of my 15-minute jump rope workout yesterday. Also a bridge. From inside workouts to outside workouts. Winter exercise to spring exercise. And from inconsistent workouts after a break of a couple weeks, to hopefully a consistent practice again.
15 minutes wasn't much. But it was enough to start.
Bridges like these make coming back to something less hard. Because it's easy to be consistent with something when you're already in the groove, but what's difficult is to return to it after losing it. And that's part of being consistent too. Learning to come back.
So bridges need to be easy, free from pressure and expectations. So often we want to rush through a bridge, to get to the other side as quickly as possible, but that's when it's easier to fail. We do too much too quickly, and then fail to maintain it.
When we're on a bridge, we need to walk, not run.
The past couple weeks, I didn't draw much. But after writing this text, I felt inspired to draw something with a bridge in it, and so I drew this landscape. If you want to try it out, here's the inspiration image I used.
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