If you will, allow me the space to be fully Candi (translated: fully nerd) with you for this post. :)
If you didn’t know, I am a musician. Since the age of two I have been singing, and believe it or not, a few short years after that I started regularly making money with my voice. Music has always been an important part of my life and will continue to be, even if it isn’t something I do as a main career focus anymore. The power of music is a universally accepted force. Humans are drawn to and affected by music in fascinating, almost magical ways. 

I nearly miss it in my hurry to find the Michelangelo exhibition. Brisk steps through the ornate hallway of European paintings are fixed on the destination and I almost keep my gaze forward-only. But a force greater than me, something so strong I nearly feel its fingers on my shoulder, pulls me leftward, taking control of my eyes and causing me to stop dead in my tracks.

This is for my people who get hung up on the word “design” because it’s so often heard in the context of interiors or spatial layouts. The word is so much broader— and better— than that.

I did a series on my Instagram early 2019 about the daily affirmations I repeat to myself. To be honest, the practice of affirmations is fairly recent for me, and a practice I found awkward and ill-fitting in the beginning.

You were made to scale the mountains
But you must write.
You were knit together to undo the hearts of humankind
But you must write today the drudgery and details of a thing.

Words fight their way up and out, bending and propelling the body to guide them into daylight. 

They’ve been in here too long; it’s getting cramped.

When no perceivable cohesion is formed, still they come.