It has been hard to get much done the past few days.  What started as seeing the initial stories posted by friends in Minneapolis regarding Renee Nicole Good’s murder has turned into an inability to look away from all the video evidence of ICE terrorizing the Twin Cities and beyond.  The worst dread comes on knowing that the federal government plans to send another 1000 ICE agents to Minnesota this month. 

Many a meme has crystalized the absurdity of moving through day-to-day life during the fast encroachment of authoritarianism.  It hits me some weeks harder than others.  There have been many attempts at writing a post for this humble little blog I have in my own corner of the internet, but the waves of unprecedented times continue to lap at whatever topic I start to write about creativity, making the whole endeavor feel entirely trivial.  I repost memes, instead.

Not that I haven’t been creating.  The last few songs I have been writing for Childless have been political because we need more political music.  It’s weird that so many artists with larger audiences don’t create about what’s happening, much less speak out.  Obviously, money blah blah blah, but doesn’t this anger need to be expressed like any other emotion?

This is also coming from someone that loves to paint a moldy piece of fruit when I can, so I get that beauty must be created without an obvious political motif sometimes.  But we have to be acting up and speaking out now so we can continue to paint moldy pieces of fruit in peace, ya know?

I don’t think this has to be a sacrifice of the creative process.  Indeed, it is needed more than ever, as a balm, if anything.  This is a call to keep going, keep making—to resist, not retreat.  So, maybe that’s the purpose of this blog: “how to create during the end times” or something like that.  I will leave the cheekiness to the memes.