What a fun experience answering these insightful questions! Thank you so much for the opportunity.
This is such a great series, Heidi, hearing from other moms on how they navigate their creative life. You're creating an incredibly important resource!
It’s on my list but it’s felt a little overwhelming. I have ideas but I haven’t thought of how to do it in a way that really honors what it is. I might pitch it somewhere. Not sure yet!
I do think there's a good pitch in there somewhere. The questions you ask dig pretty deep. There was something special about taking time to consider and articulate my answers that's impacted me since participating as well. So it might be worth to send a follow up to folks who have already participated to ask them about this?
I also thought about doing something more “data driven” since I ask the same questions and could compare the answers across the questions but that feels like a PhD level project I don’t have the bandwidth for.
No! I don't think you need stats at all. I think the impression you come away with from peoples' answers, how we're all struggling with the same thing, how reflecting on the changes and challenges motherhood brings can actually stretch and expand creativity in some ways? How it gets you thinking about the kind of supports all mothers need and deserve?
Maybe just using the interviews as springboards for sharing your own "take" and impressions. Speak up for the creative mothers! 🙏🏼 Some people don't even realize we're out here.😅
There is just so much good stuff in here! I, too find that I can waste my time when I have more of it, the constraints of the hour I get makes me much more focused.
I loved this! And I especially resonated with the fear of naming one’s desires in public. I, too, receive so much inspiration from my children, their lives and their trials. This was such a wonderful interview!
I have a feeling Marika has a lot of amazing projects in her future. That question about who do you want to collaborate with can be really clarifying! 💛
Thank you so much, Anna! Yeah, my first response to that question about desire really took me aback... I'm excited to explore not only what my answer is, but what comes from learning to own that answer.
This morning my kids were breaking down for me the different ways one can use the slang "cook" (including the different ways girls will use it vs. boys?!). Today's slang is so much richer and more fun than when we were kids!
What a fun experience answering these insightful questions! Thank you so much for the opportunity.
This is such a great series, Heidi, hearing from other moms on how they navigate their creative life. You're creating an incredibly important resource!
I love reading each one, and it really does feel like a communal project, where we’re creating a gallery that’s bigger than the sum of its parts.
Exactly! You'll have to do some kind of "what I've learned from interviewing creative mothers" article!
It’s on my list but it’s felt a little overwhelming. I have ideas but I haven’t thought of how to do it in a way that really honors what it is. I might pitch it somewhere. Not sure yet!
I do think there's a good pitch in there somewhere. The questions you ask dig pretty deep. There was something special about taking time to consider and articulate my answers that's impacted me since participating as well. So it might be worth to send a follow up to folks who have already participated to ask them about this?
I also thought about doing something more “data driven” since I ask the same questions and could compare the answers across the questions but that feels like a PhD level project I don’t have the bandwidth for.
No! I don't think you need stats at all. I think the impression you come away with from peoples' answers, how we're all struggling with the same thing, how reflecting on the changes and challenges motherhood brings can actually stretch and expand creativity in some ways? How it gets you thinking about the kind of supports all mothers need and deserve?
Maybe just using the interviews as springboards for sharing your own "take" and impressions. Speak up for the creative mothers! 🙏🏼 Some people don't even realize we're out here.😅
Oh I like that idea! Thank you!!!
“It took me a long time to recognize that my creativity hadn’t disappeared, but was, instead, being poured into motherhood.” - this is so insightful!
There is just so much good stuff in here! I, too find that I can waste my time when I have more of it, the constraints of the hour I get makes me much more focused.
Sometimes those constraints are freeing and sometimes they feel really heavy. I’m not sure what the difference is.
I loved this! And I especially resonated with the fear of naming one’s desires in public. I, too, receive so much inspiration from my children, their lives and their trials. This was such a wonderful interview!
I have a feeling Marika has a lot of amazing projects in her future. That question about who do you want to collaborate with can be really clarifying! 💛
Thank you so much, Anna! Yeah, my first response to that question about desire really took me aback... I'm excited to explore not only what my answer is, but what comes from learning to own that answer.
This morning my kids were breaking down for me the different ways one can use the slang "cook" (including the different ways girls will use it vs. boys?!). Today's slang is so much richer and more fun than when we were kids!