Yesterday I started working on a new version of patrickgallant.com which will hopefully be able to showcase some of the new concepts in web design that I’ve learned in the last four years. The site right now is just about the music I have recorded, but I want the new site to be more than that. I want it to be about me and the concept of creating things.
I have this inner need to be creative. I feel that creative need has been somewhat suppressed in recent months, whether it be due to changes in work or life, my recent back injury and seemingly unending onslaught of medical issues or what have you. That need is dying to be released.
I guess I’ve always loved to make new things. I love woodworking and creating things with my hands, which I attribute to my father. I love to draw and create artwork. I (obviously) love to create and play music. I love photography and trying to capture interesting images. I love designing web sites and user interfaces.
So this new site will be more representative of the whole me, not just the musical part (which undoubtedly is a huge part).
One thing that I have been working on diligently is a cross-stitch piece of artwork for my newborn daughter that I started when Pauline was only a few months pregnant. It is a very time-consuming activity with a lot of attention to detail. One thing Pauline has helped me with understanding is that I need to focus more on completing one task before moving on to another; it seems I tend to like to start a lot of projects…oy, I have so many unfinished ones it makes my head spin.
So I’m focusing on this one thing…this expression of creativity and love for my new daughter. Every night after the children are asleep I lie in bed next to my wife while she watches her favorite TV shows and I work on the cross-stitch. We talk. We lie together in silence. We are together. We’ve been through a lot together, but the love between us has grown. Lying there in bed, working on a piece of art, in silence I feel the connection between the two of us.
I feel for the first time in a long while that my life has turned a corner. The last several months (year or more?) there has been a darkness and I feel that darkness has lifted.
This post is probably a bit scattered, but I’m writing it without bothering to organize my thoughts in a more coherent manner. I need to get this written down.
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