Warp speed ahead. Slowly. Slowly. A creative in a corporate world.

Hi, I'm Jennie. I'm a creative working in a corporate world. Even while leading a creative services team, my days are full of virtual meetings, drive to increase efficiency, goals for continuous improvement, leading growing teams, coaching, mentoring, reflecting, standing up new systems, leaning in, being agile, so on and so forth. I am fulfilled and challenged with this work, and yet...

And yet, I find myself signing off at the end of a work day and craving, begging, longing for a slower pace in the evenings. Something analog. Something tangible. Something connected to family and heritage. Something deep and meaningful that resonates in my soul. Something to ground me. To center me. To balance the forward thinking trajectory of my days with craft and tradition anchored in the past.

In this moment in time, that slower, analog creative practice is weaving on a new-to-me floor loom.

I've learned a lot very quickly in this weaving adventure, including a lot of terminology. Like the threads/yarns that you pass left and right on the loom are the "weft" and the threads that run the length of the loom and are held under tension are the "warp." To help me remember which was which, I associated "weft" with "left" (and right), and "warp" with "warp speed ahead," because every weaving term should be associated with a Star Trek phrase. Right? Clearly.

And let me be the first to say, I absolutely see the irony of using "warp speed ahead" as my mnemonic device for the thing I'm doing to slow my pace and focus on mindful creativity. So if you need me, I'll be over here going warp speed ahead. Slowly. Slowly.

My new-to-me 4 harness Schacht Baby Wolf floor loom in my cozy new weaving corner.