Tension (First Featured on Coffee and Crumbs)

First Featured on Coffee and Crumbs:

”At night she’s free to dream. Untethered by the day’s responsibilities. Free to wonder about becoming something else, or free to wonder about what she’s becoming now. The house is quiet for a moment, the lights dim, and the worries and fears are temporarily laid to rest by exhaustion. It’s easy to romanticize a quiet, simple life when this one is the opposite. It is not quiet, it is loud. Though maybe it is “simple” in the most difficult and complex way, a tug of war, a tension, between selflessness and selfishness, between “want” and need, between art and life.⁣”