gianna soderstrom

the silence behind art

There are weeks sometimes when I get deeply, horribly stuck behind a wall of writer’s block.…

It can be hard to figure out what to write in this space some days. I’m…

“Like I don’t want to hype the coffee up but it will change your life,” the…

This is a story about last year. 2018. The year of New. I have a page…

The best way I know how to describe my community is that they are helpers. When…

I do not feel excited about advent. I didn’t last year either. My instinct is to…

I let my shoulders relax in a quiet exhale. Does it feel like a music kind…

There is mysterious soulful glory in a community of artists. When you gather with people whose…

“Discipline is supposed to serve you; you’re not supposed to serve the discipline.” She wasn’t talking…

Maybe they were just rust spots but when I walked by slowly I felt the orange-printed…

Sometimes lethargy reaches long fingers into our weekends. Sometimes we’ve spent three or four days at…