Addressing creative blocks during a pandemic, and encouraging empathy.

I have to admit that I’m struggling a bit to write this. When I launched this blog, I had drafts and plans to talk about art and travel in a world that no longer truly exists. Right now we are facing a pandemic and one of the biggest crises of our times, and what I wanted to write and share with the world has changed as well. So I am finding this area, where I am still me, expressing the creativity and inspiration I feel I am meant to do, and I am adapting to this reality. So

Four years ago I woke up at sunrise to the sound of morning birds. Inhaled fresh pine, unzipped my tent, and felt cold wind nip my cheeks as