I’m in the planning week between rounds of my year-long challenge. I called Round 3 early. I’m supposed to be resting. I wrote a song today anyway. Some creative work feels like work. This one didn’t. It came out of me the way songs used to come out when I was younger and thought I … Continue reading Forward
Author: David Willis
Keep Moving Forward
Friday night. Battery’s low. The week took more than I budgeted for. Part of me wants to plan tomorrow. The smarter part knows the plan starts with actually resting. There’s a difference between stopping and quitting — I’m still learning it. Have a good weekend. Keep moving forward.
Tonight (and Everyday) I’m Grateful for My Wife
I scrolled past a video the other day that I can’t even find again. It was a husband and a wife. They had been in some kind of fight. The husband offered an olive branch. The wife took it. There were no theatrics. Just two people who clearly respected each other and clearly loved each … Continue reading Tonight (and Everyday) I’m Grateful for My Wife
The Drift: How Some Relationships Die Quietly
I have watched partnerships I didn’t think would end, end. Not in dramatic blowups. No financial scandal. No moment where an outsider could point and say that’s where it broke. Just a slow erosion of what made the partnership work, until something tested it and it couldn’t hold the weight. The drift is what I … Continue reading The Drift: How Some Relationships Die Quietly
I’m Tired, and That’s Allowed
I’m thirty-five days into the third round of a year-long challenge that has me running seven habits every day. Across the year I’ve kept a near-daily exercise practice, published two books with a third in proof, built and grown a daily Bible illustration project that’s reached a real audience, started writing songs again, held a … Continue reading I’m Tired, and That’s Allowed
