Fiesta de Letras

I opened this blog in 2016 to highlight the creative side of the surrounding community. When I post my own writing, part of me wonders how many of the 200 viewers of my post read it with cruel curiosity. For a time, the fear of scrutiny stopped me. Now I view my writing as a therapeutic outlet for a whirlwind of fleeting thoughts that pile up, and in my attempts to understand them, I stitch them all together in these published drafts. I wonder how much creativity stays hidden in the shadows because of the fear of scrutiny. Human nature often leads us to compare ourselves to others when someone else bravely does something we haven't.