You can love a craft without wanting its deadlines to become your livelihood.

STILLNESS

WHAT THIS MEANS

Enjoyment gets tested for money almost automatically now, and the question of whether you could sell it quietly reframes the thing as underused. The qualities that make a craft restful, though, are the absence of a client and the absence of a due date. A livelihood removes exactly those two.

If people keep telling you to sell what you make, notice whether you want the income or their approval of how you spend your evenings. You are allowed to be good at something on your own terms.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which hobby do you feel pressure to turn into income?

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