Author: Suzanne Beenackers

creative writer & artist

where is your wiggle room? | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today | 20th in the “Lost Posts” series | 2026 01 16 + 2023 07 16 (OG)

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where is your wiggle room?

When things aren’t working, it is because existing systems are opposing you.

Instead of trying to get in through the front door, wonder;
Where are the gates and the borders, at this point, still unchecked?

original posted on my social media
16 July 2023

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Retrieved, story added and reposted Jan 2026

I don’t know if I just didn’t get the memo, or if it was a generational thing and will automatically be ingrained in later generations, but I didn’t have a clue about how patriarchy worked or capitalism, until shockingly late in life.

And although I’m sure there’s nuances which I will never be able to understand because my brain is no longer flexible enough to attain mastery here;
I did land on two simple rules of thumb which, so far, got me through.

One.
Anything of value, is in your own time.

And two, which I usually ignore because it’s just so bleak:
That all aggression and criminal behavior go unpunished when ran over existing power structures.
Being held accountable for your crimes basically means you are committing crimes above your paycheck.

Like I said: Bleak.
And that I’m possibly missing a few nuances here.

Compare it to medieval bestiaries where the giraffe has a short neck, the whale looks like a fish and the hyena is a horned cow who digs up people from their grave.
In the same way, my view of how capitalism and patriarchy work is more the product of a rich imagination, and less about facts.

I cannot offer you an accurate evolutionary theory on patriarchy, anymore than a medieval bestiary depicts anatomically correct beasts.

But I can offer you this:

Your survival depends on awareness that patriarchy and capitalism exist.
And having a broad idea of what it looks like.

One day the Darwin of capitalism will rise and rescue us with an Evolutionary Theory. But until then, it is up to us to collect pictures of the beast and learn what we can.
Who has a long neck and eats away above our head.
Who harvests the oceans.

Who will feed of our corpse straight from the grave.


~Suzanne Beenackers
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ABOUT THE LOST POST SERIES

I have been consistently posting “What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today” for a while now.
Starting June 2023, they found their final form as blogposts here on the Catacombe blog, pretty quickly.

But I’ve always been aware there were singular posts/ borderline poetry, still on social media, floating somewhere down my timeline.

Some at the beginning when I did not know what this series would be.
Some around the time in October/November 2023, when I lost access to this site.
And then a few in between.

And in addition to that there are the ones I did post on the blog, but whose stories revolve around things I no longer offer.
I will retrieve those too;
And give them a new story, that has the timeless quality they deserve.

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Consciousness | 2026 01 13 | That ONE Book (start at any page)

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To this day I don’t know why I didn’t like the French book Le Petit Prince.
Well, a translated one, since I don’t understand more French than the title.

It’s of course difficult to understand what I mean by “Like”, as everyone knows who used Social Media in the binary time when the only emoji for a post was “a like”.
A thumbs up.
This often lead to people also placing a comment, explaining the thumb did not mean they actually liked the sad event that had happened in the post.

Nowadays the response emojis are more diversified. A heart, a thumbs up, a sad emoji, and a link to the full menu of all other available emojis are now standard.
We no longer have to limit a quick response to “Like”.

When it comes to reading books or watching movies however, we’ve always had access to more words and to providing more context.
So when I say I didn’t like Le Petit Prince, let me preface that by saying I refrain from watching any form of drama.
I find drama overwhelming, notice it hardens me, and it seems to make me deeply cynical.

But I don’t recall Le Petit Prince being dramatic in the sense of reflecting the injustice of our societies, or the horrible things people do to each other.
Instead, the prince was the only person on his planet and he was terribly lonely.

Over time I did not change my opinion on the book (still no Like from me!) but I did get a little more eloquent as to why I did not like it.
Because I understood we are all just as alone as the Little Prince is.

According to the book description, the Prince ultimately ends up on Earth.
And I think he will make a great Earthling.

His heart is open to connect and it is so much bigger than ours.
It holds infinite space.

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~Suzanne Beenackers
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I’m going for writing 365 chapters over the course of 9 years, and then bring it to print.
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from ready to done | CREATOR series w. troll dolls (new video)

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new video on YouTube:
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-> https://youtu.be/8Vop4BdhhjA

from ✅ ready to 🥳 done
| CREATOR series w. troll dolls

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Content is art!
A 100 Years from now, what you’ve shared online will have survived you.
Consistency now, means a legacy later.

“But how?!” you may ask.

In 2025 I more or less accidentally tripled if not quadrupled my content, and without any of the stress it used to give me.
Accidentally, because I wasn’t looking for that.
But more or less, because I know exactly what system I was applying, and why it worked.

In this new CREATOR series, we explore the system’s different elements, and how they might help you.
I’m getting help from the trolls, who have given us access to their four storey dollhouse.

The only rule for these videos is:
– no preparation
Because any process you don’t know by heart, belongs in the trash bin!

This week episode 1:
“from ready to done”

video recorded on Saturday 10 January 2026
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Playlist of this series (all videos):
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNB-coaKIJpDKYldfyOk3aQ547QEjIwaE&si=YYv7EL7RhTiXaO_8
CREATOR series w. troll dolls
—
In this video;

1. Welcome to this new series! 00:00
This is The New Rock Star Channel.
There’s already another series here, called Rock Star Take On.
And in 2026 we’re starting this second series:
Sharing how you can double or triple your content, without any stress.
And with trolls.

2. Content = Art 01:15
This probably the most important message of this series, so I will take the liberty of repeating it every time!

3. Dollhouse and trolls 03:05
They’re here first and foremost, to make this series more fun.
But they will also be representing the different elements of the system.

{ Story continues at 4. below this outline of the different elements }
—
LEGENDA:
🏠The Dollhouse
Represents the whole process from idea, to content creation, to posting.
In my example the dollhouse represents a process of 1 week, in which the trolls are moved from the basement (idea phase) to the balcony (posted).
For this series the whole dollhouse is one week of a tour from a rock band.
🤎💚💜The Trolls
Represent different pieces of content.
Larger trolls take more time to create, and smaller trolls less time.
For this series each troll represents one performance.
🧐The Basement: All options
Represents the idea phase, everything you may want to make.
Including Moving Targets- which of course cannot be moved up the stairs.
And ideas (trolls) that are too big, and cannot be moved up the stairs either.
For this series we see the basement as where the Tour Manager receives different offers of where the band could play.
✅First Floor: Ready Room
These are the trolls that are small enough to be moved up the stairs, and that you want to create within the next week.
For this series, each troll in the Ready Room represents a concert you want to organize.
🔧⚙️🛠️Second Floor: Doing
These are trolls (pieces of content) you started to work on, but that are not done yet.
For this series, each troll on the Doing Floor, represents a concert that has not been fully organized yet.
🥳 Attic: Dome of Done
These pieces of content are done. You could post them anytime, or they’re already scheduled.
For this series, each troll in the Dome of Done, represents a concert that is all mapped out and ready to rock.
📢🎤 Balcony: The (online) World
Here’s where your babies are proudly shared with the world, they’re posted online.
For this series, each troll on the balcony represents a concert that is currently taking place or has taken place earlier this week.
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4. from READY to DONE 03:38
This first video shows how to:
🧐 select trolls in the basement
✅ bring them to the Room of Ready (first floor)
🔧⚙️🛠️move them through “Doing”
Or leaving them there, overnight.
🥳 getting them to the Dome of Done (attic)
📢🎤 and releasing them onto the balcony

5. 🔑For this to work 12:00
The two things required are:
🛒consciously selecting pieces of content you want to create
This means breaking pattern with a free flow of creativity (and so it will not be for everybody)
🔳🔲 separating creating from posting
This is what takes the stress out of it, but again, it may not want to be what you want.
F.e. if your art involves posting about real time events.

The next CREATOR series with troll dolls
will go out on this blog.
So subscribe!

~Suzanne Beenackers
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but can you give it your full attention? | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today | 19th in the “Lost Posts” series | 2026 01 10 + 2023 07 15 (OG)

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but can you give it your full attention?

Only keep those relationships, those activities, and those dreams.

An identification where there is no longer good or bad.
Just a total immersion of being (in) it.

original posted on my social media
15 July 2023

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Retrieved, story added and reposted Jan 2026

Someone told me we’re starting a new 8 year long cycle.
Although I have not been able to track exactly what the astrological profiles of this year are, two search results immediately caught my eye:

The year is considered a “Universal Year 1”, because of its numerology.
2+0+2+6=10= 1+0 = 1
It’s about to give us a complete reboot, no exception (because it’s “universal”).
By the end of this year, none of our lives will be the same.

And in February, notoriously slow moving planets Neptune and Saturn will be coming together in Ares (the first sign of the Zodiac) for the first time in 36 year.
And aside from their slow moving nature and both representing a male energy;
These two planets are definitely on two opposing sides of the spectrum personality wise!

Saturn represents structure, karma, the inevitable. It represents a truth that cannot be changed.
While Neptune represents not just delusion but also imagination and a boundless reality that spans across all dimensions and includes all beings, the living and the dead, and the unknown.

With these two opposing forces both coming together in Ares, the sign of the boisterous and brave Ram – the only one strong enough to save humanity’s ass right now because it keeps pushing forward without looking up nor back! – both our lives as well as our minds will be stretched to their breaking points.

I expect this year to be an equalizer (the “universal” aspect);
But also the year we have to choose what we want to save.

Saturn will demand us to be consistent and will hold us accountability for every choice;
And Neptune will clear what’s left, taking anything we’re wishy washy about into the depths of the ocean.

2026 is a year of reckoning.

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~Suzanne Beenackers
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ABOUT THE LOST POST SERIES

I have been consistently posting “What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today” for a while now.
Starting June 2023, they found their final form as blogposts here on the Catacombe blog, pretty quickly.

But I’ve always been aware there were singular posts/ borderline poetry, still on social media, floating somewhere down my timeline.

Some at the beginning when I did not know what this series would be.
Some around the time in October/November 2023, when I lost access to this site.
And then a few in between.

And in addition to that there are the ones I did post on the blog, but whose stories revolve around things I no longer offer.
I will retrieve those too;
And give them a new story, that has the timeless quality they deserve.

.

Catacombe is email-list free!!

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But no additional or promotional emails are sent – just the blog, sec.

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Higher Self | 2026 01 06 | That ONE Book (start at any page)

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This post was written Wednesday 31st 2025, on the first morning I have quit being online, in the same way I once quit smoking.
Restless, resentful, and determined to do whatever it takes, because I’m not going through this again.

Unfortunately though, I do not possess the powerful Make or Break Energy which I had back then.
I did not wake up late and hungover after a night of smoking in a venue full of smoke and loud conversations.

But I did wake up groggy, as is pretty much standard since 2020.
And I knew exactly who to blame:
YouTube on my phone.

Decades later “Just one more cigarette” had mutated into “Just one more YouTube video”
And that’s after cancelling evening computer hours, and not having had any subscription to streaming services, for years.

YouTube, the last of my old online addictions, had to go.

And not just because I no longer want to wake up groggy.
I’m also curious if I can regain my 20th century consciousness?
And what will happen if I do?

I predict life will be so colorful, so rich, so interesting.

There’s a lot to do about the concept of hyperreality where AI makes everything look more pretty.

But I think hyperreality is what I will see once my mind is no longer tied to my phone.
And I think it will go beyond this dimension too.

I don’t consider myself psychic, but by now (10 years into our hyper-connected phone era?) I’m definitely curious what I will be able to pick up on, after I’ve stopped numbing myself with YouTube.

What appears once the digital noise has stopped?
What are the messages from the universe?
Who else is there in the unseen?

I am going to rely on whatever I can pick up on in that newfound silence.
Peeking through the veil.

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~Suzanne Beenackers
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That ONE Book is the book I always think I own, until I realize it has not been written yet. So in December 2025 I started writing it myself.
I’m going for writing 365 chapters over the course of 9 years, and then bring it to print.
You can read all posts in this series here.

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Rock Star Take On FRESH STARTS | The New Rock Star Channel (new video)

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new video on YouTube:
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-> https://youtu.be/a1swl15UB1k

Rock Star Take On FRESH STARTS
| The New Rock Star Channel
—

The New Rock Star Channel is back!
With a new format:
– 10 minute video
– no preparation

This week, the twenty-second video.
A Rock Star Take On FRESH STARTS

video recorded Friday January 2nd 2026

—
Or watch the foundational video first, from 24th Oct 2024:
https://youtu.be/AQCIWDhaK4E
2 Rock Star Things That Took Me 25 Years To Find Out
OR All videos with the playlist of this series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNB-coaKIJpD5pxPVdrsGG37nvPCaXZIU
The New Rock Star Channel
—

In this video;

1. We’re back! 00:00
With a Rock Star Take on FRESH STARTS
Because it’s the first week of the year, 2026.

2. coming soon: CREATOR series 00:20
Ready to double or even triple your content/ original art?
You really can rock it as a creator, take the stress out of it and also without batching your content.
(you may have encountered “batching” as something you need to do – but they’re wrong, and you’re don’t).

The new CREATOR series will go out on this Catacombe blog but also on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewRockStarChannel
If you subscribe there, they will show up in your feed.

3. FRESH STARTS 02:18
A rule of this Rock Star Take is that I can’t prepare!
So I can’t sit down and ponder in advance what I will be sharing, but fortunately I had the most interesting thing happen to me on New Year’s Day.

One that offers a brand-new perspective on the whole idea of FRESH STARTS
(and also: give yourself as many fresh starts as you fancy!)

Next the Rock Star Take On
INFINITY!

It will go out on this blog.
So subscribe!

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~Suzanne Beenackers
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Rock Star Take On THE HOLIDAYS | The New Rock Star Channel (new video)

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-> https://youtu.be/TzZJt-cKW6I

Rock Star Take On THE HOLIDAYS
| The New Rock Star Channel
—

The New Rock Star Channel is back!
With a new format:
– 10 minute video
– no preparation

This week, the twenty-first video.
A Rock Star Take On THE HOLIDAYS

video recorded Thursday 18 December 2025

—
Or watch the foundational video first, from 24th Oct 2024:
https://youtu.be/AQCIWDhaK4E
2 Rock Star Things That Took Me 25 Years To Find Out
OR All videos with the playlist of this series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNB-coaKIJpD5pxPVdrsGG37nvPCaXZIU
The New Rock Star Channel
—

In this video;

1. We’re back! 00:00
With a Rock Star Take on THE HOLIDAYS
Because it’s the final week of the year, and the final video of 2025.

2. Christmas in The Netherlands 00:17
We have 2.5 days of Christmas!
And I have such vivid memories of when those days were booked with back-to-back family gatherings.

3. The Most Creative Time of the Year 02:45
For me, the holidays have ended up being this creative spree.
But it’s not just me;
Everybody is so creative.
Making special dishes or multi-course dinners;
Decorating the house, organizing gatherings.
The holidays are collectively our most creative time of the year.

4. New Year’s Day 04:38
Special mention for January 1st, which is my favorite day of the year!

7. The Rock Star Take on THE HOLIDAYS 05:10
It’s the only time where it’s not “just you” who is creative.

Everybody gets more creative around this time of the year.

8. Year wrap up 07:36
I have been thinking about starting a new series, as well.
One tailored to CREATORS, called The CREATOR series.

At the time of recording, it was just an idea;
But I have made the decision!
I will indeed start this new series, but it will go out on the blog (not a video series)
Subscribe to:
And you will get The CREATOR series – as well as these Rock Star video Series, in you Inbox in 2026.

And I have made a decision on it

9. A New Year 08:28
The next video will be up Monday the 5th of January, so let’s choose a topic related to that.

Next stop is a Rock Star Take On
FRESH STARTS!

It will go out on this blog.
So subscribe!

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~Suzanne Beenackers
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Thank you so much for reading and engaging🙏🏽
This was the final post of 2025.
We’ll see each other after the Holiday break, on Monday January 5th, 2026.

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go to bed | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today | 18th in the “Lost Posts” series | 2025 12 19 + 2023 07 13 (OG)

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go to bed

Not when there is nothing more to do
And nothing left to say
But when the amount of things waiting to be expressed
Requires it.

original posted on my social media
13 July 2023

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Retrieved, story added and reposted Dec 2025

There are few moments I remember more vividly from the memoir “Eat, Pray, Love” than the moment Elizabeth Gilbert is on the bathroom floor sobbing because her marriage and life are falling apart.
For the first time in her adult life she turns to God, in prayer.

She asks God what she should do, and God answers:
“Go to bed Liz.”

Sometimes life is so overwhelming that we forget the basics of our self-care.

But it also reminds me of a quote I definitely have no recollection of where I heard it or who said it, but it is a pretty well known one.
It’s about a wisdom that you need sit for an x amount of time in meditation every day.
Except when you’re really busy:
Then it’s double.

We’re so busy solving the not-working things that come on our path, or investing in the goals we want to accomplish, dedicating entire chapters of our life to them;
That the day-to-day seems expendable.
Something we can brush aside until we have sorted all that other shit out.

Except, of course;
It isn’t.

You cannot go without sleep, or social life, or keeping your house in good shape.
Regardless of you not remembering five years from now if you attended to them or not.

But on a deeper level, it will have made all the difference if the upcoming years you live by what you know to be true in the area of self-care;
Or if you let it be overwritten by every other urgent thing.

The way I am tackling it recently, is that I dedicate just as much planning and strategy to the self-care as to the rest.

It has its own journal/ planner.
It’s own daily moment of reflection of how the past 24 hours went and what can be improved.

It’s the pillar that says:
You are more than just your work.

You are still human.

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~Suzanne Beenackers
Catacombe
become the Rock Star you were born to be

Holiday break incoming!
This Monday, 22 December, you receive one last post.
And then we’re going on a break until Monday 5 January 2026.

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ABOUT THE LOST POST SERIES

I have been consistently posting “What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today” for a while now.
Starting June 2023, they found their final form as blogposts here on the Catacombe blog, pretty quickly.

But I’ve always been aware there were singular posts/ borderline poetry, still on social media, floating somewhere down my timeline.

Some at the beginning when I did not know what this series would be.
Some around the time in October/November 2023, when I lost access to this site.
And then a few in between.

And in addition to that there are the ones I did post on the blog, but whose stories revolve around things I no longer offer.
I will retrieve those too;
And give them a new story, that has the timeless quality they deserve.

.

Catacombe is email-list free!!

Yes – you can subscribe to receive new blogposts;
But no additional or promotional emails are sent – just the blog, sec.

Instagram – Twitter – Rock Star Writer Facebook – Facebook Suzanne Beenackers Schrijver – LinkedIn

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also goes out on ->
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Allegiance | 2025 12 16 | That ONE Book (start at any page)

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For me, this year has been about sprints of growth, lightbulb moments, two friendships that deepened, and both through entirely different routes.

It has been about two friends and one professional dropping out of connection, and wondering if they would miss me if I no longer contacted them or be relieved.

It has been about the most important conversation of the past decade taking place, just when I’d given up.

It has been about a realization that I really trust God will keep me alive to do my work.
Or not, and be granted an early exit out of here.
I expect it will feel like a Wednesday afternoon from my childhood, when school finished early.

Yet whether I die at 104 or earlier, I am prepared to do it alone.
Since I figured that one out, the other pieces have been falling into place effortlessly.

I no longer need to think as much, life is easier. Even for the ones who take their distance, I will never force them to deal with me, in this new state.

Being unwilling to water myself down or to sugarcoat things;
No longer investing copious amounts of time to begin with;
Of course that has social consequences.
As it bloody hell should.

But I had not thought about how this works for concepts like allegiance and loyalty.
The idea of going the extra mile and showing up when things get difficult.

With whom do you side, when you no longer supply the social glue of superficiality?
Where does it still gel?

Who can count on my allegiance, and vice versa on whose allegiance can I count?

My answer is I would look for character, moral boundaries, and faith in a higher power.
Which can also be the higher Self.

Before we stand shoulder to shoulder, I need to know theirs will hold.

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~Suzanne Beenackers
Catacombe
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Legacy | Share Your Work 2025 12 15

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The most difficult part about being a creator is the trail of work it leaves behind. It has been my achilles heel since the 90s where I dropped out of photography academy because I found the bulk of prints and negatives just overwhelming.

Maybe if we’d spent the first 6 months of training to becoming proper archivists, I would have stayed.
But I left, and when I picked up my creativity a decade later as a writer, I was aware that one of the big perks was that I didn’t create so much stuff.

Not realizing that by now, I would not just face three decades of emails, and four decades of paper agendas – which would have grown regardless if I became a writer or not –
But also countless notebooks, logbooks, workbooks and always several diaries at the same time.
And none of those materials get full;
They get abandoned.

And then there’s the digital legacy of by now thousands of pieces of content, which I have to either bring to print or let them float in cyberspace.
And more Word files that never saw the light of day.

Creation is the easy part.
What to do with it later on, the difficult one.

And looking at the past for wisdom does not make it easier.

Nijmegen is the city where the Lymborch Brothers were born, and they became painters of miniatures.
They quickly made it to the highest levels, working for French nobility, including sharing their table and living at the court.

Yet their work disappeared, and was not rediscovered until hundreds of years later.
Stored so safely, it had risked vanishing from the face of the earth.

The diarist Anais Nin, with whose work I identify most, carried her diaries with her on a transatlantic move, but didn’t publish them until she was in her 60s.
And her erotica, the other ace up her sleeve, was still in the process of being published when she died.

Van Gogh’s work did not sell until after his death.
He never knew his legacy was secure.

Maybe the common wisdom is there is no way to plan it.
You have to let go of the legacy, and focus on the art you’re here to create.

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