Creative Self

Notes for “The Labor Around the Love”

Makari Shorts. A reflective Makari note on work, worth, income, survival, and the larger field of making and contribution. This short follows a…

Apr 20 • Kirenya

What She Draws Forth

Studio Shorts. A quiet exchange between maker and form. The drawn figure meets her at the edge of creation, where imagination, identity, and presence…

Apr 18 • Kirenya

Makari. A poem about visible work and invisible knowledge, where craft appears in public while its deepest fluency stays rooted in the maker.

Apr 16 • Kirenya

Trying to Say Exactly What I Mean

Makari. I sat down to write a sentence for myself and found, inside a few ordinary words, a whole philosophy of desire, becoming, and what it means to…

Apr 14 • Kirenya

A Stomari Short

Apr 12 • Kirenya

On Mars, Laughing

Stomari short about wanting growth so deeply that longing becomes a form of travel. After effort, repetition, and the familiar orbit of the self, the…

Apr 10 • Kirenya

The Distance Between Vision and Version

Makari Notes on vision, translation, and letting the work live. A reflective note on the distance between what we imagine and what we make, and the…

Apr 9 • Kirenya

Winter Orchard Fragment

Stomari. This poem explores the unseen life beneath visible beauty—rootwork, patience, and the inner language that shapes what the world later calls…

Apr 1 • Kirenya

Mar 11 • Kirenya

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Arrogance, Wearing Insecurity's Clothes (Part 2)

Makari | From Her Journal – Return Unlocked – Doubt or arrogance? Part II continues a quiet reflection on writing, faith, the void, and choosing to…

Jan 14 • Kirenya

Arrogance, Wearing Insecurity's Clothes (Part 1)

Makari | From Her Journal – Return Unlocked - Creative insecurity can disguise itself as arrogance—the belief that our work is so singular no one else…

Jan 12 • Kirenya

Arrogance, Wearing Insecurity's Clothes

Makari | The Notebooks: From Her Journal — "I'm performing my insecurity here, aren't I? A little theater. Even as I write about my creative doubts, I…

Nov 18, 2025 • Kirenya

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