Another week, another card for my 52 Cards Project. I seem to be coming out a creative tailspin—finally. I just started going in too many directions with all the kinds of art I thought I wanted to make and before I knew it I couldn’t tell you what I actually wanted to do—or even why. Anyway, I’ll talk more about that later, but this card is about me pausing to remember that I really don’t need to do anything.

Just Be.

Like a tree.

If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend the book, The Overstory, by Richard Powers. It’s a monster of a book—but it changed my view of trees forever—and speaks to me again this week.

“…From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings … There is a world alongside ours―vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us."—Amazon