Don't get distracted. (daily video)

Creative, there’s a lot going on.

It’s bad.

I know it’s distracting. I need you to not be distracted.

CREATE.

ROUGH TRANSCRIPT

Creative, I need you to not get distracted. There's a lot distracting right now. There's a lot of bad stuff right now and it's a little bit of a spiral and if you get stuck in it, it will pull you down.

You got to remember that what's happening now is happening in the context of history. There is a cyclical pattern to this. Each time we get out of this particular kind of controlling vindictive thrust, we actually end up with more human rights on the other side. There is hope at the end of this.

Now, that is not helping the people who are currently being murdered or imprisoned illegally or all the other horrible things that are going on. But it does mean that there is an end goal. That just lying down and giving up is not the answer.

Creative, I need you to keep going. I need you to keep making your art. I need you to keep taking in art. I need you to keep working on your empathy even though it hurts because a lot of people are in pain right now because it makes you a better communicator. I need you to keep going because when all of this is done and sanity does come back and it it may take 30 years but it will.

Your art is going to be here. Your art will be a record of the people who went through this of the people who didn't give up of hope of the worth of human beings of why we matter. All of these things are contained in what you make. Don't give up hope. Even if it doesn't feel like there's anything coming our way that's good. I promise you there is.

Take a deep breath. It's going to be okay. Sit down with me and together with bloodied knuckles, let's make something new.