I was surprised when a theme popped up over the past few days. It's centered around this question: What do you want your creative life to look like on your next milestone birthday? For me, that's 50. It boggles my mind that I am closer to 50 than 30, let alone 20, but that's just life. On the difficulty scale of questions to ask, this one is off the charts. I live life drifting between the present and some moment in the past. While I want to blame this behavior on the Internet, algorithms, and a culture that worships the youth and everything new, I don't want to deal with reality. But I have to, just like we all do. And it starts with preparing for my creative future.