Find the work you were born to do
Do you have a passion project?
A passion project is a creative or personal endeavor you pursue simply because it excites, inspires, or deeply interests you — not because of external expectations, deadlines, or profit. It’s something you feel drawn to do just because.
It might look like creating a zine, illustrating a tarot deck, recording songs in your garage, planting a vegetable garden, or writing a story you’ve carried in your head for years.
The key? It’s driven by joy and meaning, not obligation.
I have more than one project in my head. The content is altered over time. My skills change. My creative practice expands. But you know what has not changed? Me, beginning. Me, finishing.
Why do we push away our passion projects?
Time. What if I spend all this time and it is for nothing?
Fear. What if what I see in my head is so far from what I execute?
Failing. What if I lose my inspiration, get stuck, it gets hard, and I fail?
You fear putting all your extra time into something that might not work out. And then you are empty-handed. You lost that little fire inside of you, that felt like hope.
We are born dreamers. Teenagers have headphones permanently glued to their ears. Why? To tune out the world. To tune into music that inspires them. To dream. To imagine who they might be in the world that spills out in front of them into infinity. All things being possible.
That dreaming never goes away. We just learn to stuff it deep down under all the adulting we are required to do. But the little act of carving out time to do that thing. That thing in that tiny lock box inside you - it is your magic puzzle piece.
It is magic because it is your golden thread. The bright light that runs in each of us and gives us a feeling of purpose. Maybe a way to express ourselves in a way we have never been able to. A finished something to behold.
I invite you to begin in June. I will be carving out a few hours a week to dive into one of my projects. I’m going to see where it takes me.
May 13th is the full moon. The Flower Moon represents a time of renewal and abundance. A time to plant new seeds, perhaps. I find it always a good thing to get quiet by yourself. Stop doing so much and be for a little bit. There is a Flower Moon Meditation in my May’s Monthly Nature Almanac.
Until Next Time✨,
Kim