Dear Creative Diary,
Some days I feel like the deer who wanders up to a porch—curious, tentative, wondering if there’s something good waiting there. And you know what? At the Creative Jam, there is. The Free Art Library sits out front like a quiet invitation, a wooden whisper saying: your work is wanted here.
To every creative soul (yes, that means you, even if you only half believe it): there is a place for the things you make. The sketches you don’t quite know what to do with. The paintings that have been sitting in a pile. The folded paper cranes, the photos, the little bursts of beauty that feel too small or too strange or too unpolished. They are not too small. And they are not too strange. They are enough.
Here’s the magic: everything that goes into the library goes out again. People stop, peek in, and carry pieces away, into kitchens, onto desks, tucked into frames, taped to mirrors. Every scrap of art left finds its way into a new home with someone who delights in it.
And if you want, you can leave a little note card. Write your name or the name of your piece. Or a wish for whoever discovers it. Or write nothing at all, just trust the universe to make the match. Because it does. The deer doesn’t overthink where the clover grows, and you don’t need to overthink where your art belongs.
It will find the right hands, the right heart.
And when you leave your artwork, if something inside the library calls to you, please take it. Maybe you’re the person meant to give it a new home. That’s part of the magic too: not just giving, but receiving.
So, dear creative, bring your work. Drop it in the box. Relax. Let it go. Watch how it travels. Know that in some quiet living room or bustling office, your brush strokes or doodles or colors will brighten someone’s day.
Because the world really does need what you make, even the pieces you thought no one would want. *Especially those*.
—Me, sharing the whispers of the Free Art Library, hoping to see the small artworks tucked away in your craft room dreaming of new homes, and the reminder that you are the creative who can set them free.
