All my homies are tired.

“Because of that, we’ve learned to hold onto everything.

“If you’re always trying to survive, you’re free to’t think about resting.”

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“You don’t always have tobe creating, doing, and ‘contributing’ to the world.

“You feel like no one is going to take care of you.

The more intersections you have in your identity, the harder it is.

Creative rest is about experiencing beauty and art within ourselves without using our own creative labor tomanifest it.

Think spending a weekend in the mountains, lying on the beach, or attending a live show.

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