04/06/2026
I know how lucky I am to get to do meaningful work every day. But one of the things I forgot to do was do the meaningful work of my life outside of this building. This is Drane hall. A place where I do meaningful student work at Texas Tech five days a week and sometimes more because I’m often in my head. I love my students and I care so deeply for the work that they are doing. Our team is strong and it’s a lot of fun.
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Over a year ago I set out to take self portraits consecutively every day and in looking at my very inactive Instagram recently I noticed that my soul as an artist has been covered up by all of the other things that get my attention. Lots of this is important stuff: I make dinner, I wipe little noses, and I support and mentor incredible young people, I spend meaningful time with my husband. But I forgot about me. I forgot that this smile is genuine and she’s really committed to everyone’s happiness, but often not committed enough to her own. So well, I may not be committing to a goal. I can’t keep, I am committing to self. This means art every day, creativity every day, joyful, and fervent relationship every day. I don’t know what it will look like, but I do know it’ll be the best reward for Self that I can offer. And I have a feeling it will let the little light in me shine even brighter for those that I’m trying to share it with.
