B.J. Vancheyson | Fantasy | Spiritual Fiction | Historical Fiction | Retro Fiction | Poetry

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Not too long ago, I stumbled across a YouTube chan

Not too long ago, I stumbled across a YouTube channel with the most heartwarming baby harp seals. The videos are short—but they can turn your day around in an instant.

This can be said for anything creative—writing, art, music and beyond. It may not always take just an instant: It may unfold over time. In many cases, though, we start being affected, someway, somehow, immediately.

Though wildlife videos show us real life, they're still creative content, in that they're videos someone captured. The videographer, Rei Ohara, was originally a news photographer, who switched to being a wildlife photographer. (His channel on YouTube is "Baby Harp Seal Ch.")

One of the keys, though, is he, like many who do creative work, wanted to create something people would cherish—unlike the news photos he had previously taken, which people looked at for only a few seconds.

However, he saw a woman staring at one of his harp seal photos—and she proceeded to carefully take it out of the magazine and save it.

"Normal" life, for most people, is not something that heals us. In fact, we need something to "get through it."

That's what creative works bring us. That's why we save words, quotes, images, music and videos that we come back to time and again.

Yet what do we actually *do* with them, be it mentally, spiritually or emotionally?

We use them. We use them to heal from, and deal with, life. We use them to enjoy life.

Creators do "produce"—but productivity is not the motivation. It's to offer something more…and something intangible.

Something that cheers us up or makes us feel understood…or a million other ways that creativity helps us.

The ways we heal and cope are not always tangible.

Sometimes, they don't come in bottles or pills, but through our senses.

And sometimes, that can be just the medicine we need.

#creativity #creators #healing

✒️ Sometimes, it's hard to get rid of distract

✒️ Sometimes, it's hard to get rid of distractions and just write. We're all good at procrastinating, and unfortunately, also good at being distracted.

I realized recently I spend more time than necessary maybe on finding the "perfect" image to go with social posts. That ends up taking a lot of time!

It's fun to do the posts with images in them, but at least some of the time, it's worth trying a new format. The book above is an art journal, but it's easy enough to have some pages ready to just "type" on digitally each time and use that in the future. That way, I won't get stuck looking for the perfect image every single time!

Hopefully, this will give me more time for writing…if only a little.

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Happy Earth Day! #earthday #earth #fantasy #beaut

Happy Earth Day!

#earthday #earth #fantasy #beauty

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