I’m an Uncommon Animal – Dodo Bird

I’ve just dropped a new t-shirt: the I’m an Uncommon Animal dodo edition. A little extinct bird that once strutted around like it owned the world, now gone. A tragic but fitting mascot for our modern creativity: easily distracted, overrun by convenience, and at serious risk of disappearing. Wear it as a warning, or a declaration. #DodoBird #tshirt #uncommonanimals

What book are you reading right now?

Speaking of disappearing, let’s talk about reading. Or, more accurately, trying to. I’m currently stumbling through The Artist’s Way. A book everyone tells you is life-changing if you do morning pages, three whole pages of brain vomit before your coffee. The only problem is, I barely have time to draw, let alone write three pages every morning. Between parenting, farm chores, and trying to keep my own art alive, my “morning pages” often look more like a drawing.

Yet, there’s something deliciously subversive about the idea. The Artist’s Way isn’t just a book; it’s a manifesto for anyone trying to keep their creative life from becoming extinct. It’s about carving out the tiniest spaces in your day to honor your imagination, to resist the pull of a convenience-obsessed world, and to remember that ideas need time and space to hatch, otherwise, they die quietly, like the dodo.

I can’t promise I’ll become a morning pages evangelist tomorrow. I might never finish all the exercises. But I can promise I’ll keep showing up for my art, for my animals, for the ideas that want to breathe. And if wearing a dodo on my chest reminds me not to let my creativity vanish into oblivion, then that’s already a win.

So if you’re thinking of letting your creative life slide because life is “too busy,” remember: even small acts count. Keep drawing. Keep sketching. Keep imagining. Keep creating. Don’t let your ideas go the way of the dodo.