Hello friends!

I am grateful to share with you that I am beginning a new chapter.

After 6 months, 130 weekdays, and 131 poems, I am diverging from Dailies to focus on longer-term, project-based work.

Thank you for all your support and feedback over the last 6 months. I have learned so much from this process and from all of you. I accomplished my primary goal: to become comfortable releasing imperfect pieces of art into the universe for other eyes and hearts to devour.

Before I started, I had a lot of fear around artistic vulnerability. What if people don’t like my work? What if it’s not perfect? What if I look back in 5 years, months, days, minutes, and absolutely hate what the world can now see?

I feared what I couldn’t see, what I couldn’t control. I feared making mistakes in public spaces. When I came to the realization that I had fears around my own perspective changing, I paused. This person, fearful of change and uncertainty, fearful, implicitly, of my own growth, was not who I wanted to be.

So, I pushed myself to do the thing I hadn’t done yet: publish my poetry.

Through this process, I learned that no one has it (their art, or anything really) down perfectly. Everybody is trying to whatever degree they can or choose. And that attempt, that gesture into the unknown, that impulse – is beautiful.

I leapt into this Dailies project and learned how to fall, how to recover, and how to fly. I started a Twitter and an Instagram and began learning how to give my poetry sensory detail through creative coding. Now, my feathers are molting, my wings still strengthening. I’ve built up confidence as an artist to create without succumbing to the fear of mistakes or to the fear of change. I am learning how to embrace mistakes as opportunities to change, whether that change adapts or redirects my process.

The ability to change is the gift of life.

Dailies are transforming into Weeklies. A seven-day salute to the beautiful moments and mysteries of our universe. I may scatter a few extra poems along the way, too.

A new Species of Value evolves.

Graciously,

Elisabeth

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