Before we dive into today's episode, I just wanted to share a little teaser for an upcoming project.

I am really excited to be launching a new community project soon, which is going to be a

creative incubator called Kiln, K-I-L-N,

kiln where half-baked ideas become real.

And it's going to be a really beautiful, long-term community

for creating accountability and motivation and inspiration around moving forward with our creative

projects, our business projects, our creative practices. And I am excited to share more with you

about that soon. So just a little heads up that is coming down

the pike. And I'm hoping to share more in my next podcast episode and my next newsletter.

Hello, hello, hello. I'm Jocelyn K. Gly, and this is Hurry Slowly, a podcast about creativity and consciousness and healing.

As I'm recording this today, it's one of those slightly oppressive gray late January days where I feel like I really just want to put my head in the sand and not do any of my homework.

There is a real gift and joy and privilege in being self-employed, but I will say that it also requires a lot of self-motivation.

And some days one is just not entirely in the mood to self-motivate.

And I'm having one of those days.

And part of what's coming up for me is really

thinking about this tension between urgency and ripeness. I wrote about ripening as a metaphor a few

months ago in my newsletter. And lest I try to reinvent the wheel or the language to describe that

metaphor in this case, I'm going to read you a few paragraphs from that piece. So I wrote,

I speak to a spiritual teacher from time to time who uses very evocative metaphors. And after I went

through a breakup with my partner this past spring, I was saying to this teacher how I wanted to understand the purpose of our relationship, what it was for, so to speak.

They responded by telling me that the insight was not yet ripe and that what it was, it would fall into my hands like a beautiful peach

ready to be eaten. But for now, the peach was not ready. And lately I've been returning to

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