There are eleven months standing between us and last January. In those months, you may feel like you've lost some steam. Your circumstances may look different than you had expected or hoped them to when first you jumped excitedly into this year. You may feel tired, even a little hopeless, like your mind and body are trying to wind down with the season but your schedule won't let you. Like you should have accomplished more or are running out of time.

“It’s hard, just suck it up and accept it.”

An easy statement to make when you’re sitting on the sidelines watching the game.

It’s not so easy to do when you’re the one rolling in the mud. Hurting. Tired. Angry. Forgotten and alone.

The conversation then becomes this… how do you push aside all that pain and carry on when you really want to quit, without sucking it up and pretending you’re not hurting?

I started posting these two slashes before quotes and concepts on social media. At first, I was drawn to the aesthetic, but over time the practice grew into a concept of its own. The lines aren’t the substance, but the frame for it. The empty space between that gets often overlooked.