Brilliant post, Hive account@keilahgreen ! :-D I LOVE hearing from others who dare to enter the Flow of LIVING rather than donating all their life-force to the system; it is truly amazing what transpires when we remove ourself from agendas and begging for the crumbs, and take our Right-full place in the world... MUCH more challenging, but INFINITELY more honourable, healthy, freeing, expansive, deeeply satisfying, etc, etc, etc...

I've been a non-commercial co-creator (conventionally referred to as 'artist') for my entire adult life, bar two stints in regular boss-coorporation-wage jobs - the jobs lasted for just a few months, as they sucked the vitality out of me, even though I was surrounded by art or teaching art...

I've never compromised since, and it has been a tad precarious at a couple of points over the past decades, but nothing can meet the immense value of owning one's own Life rather than being owned!!

Blessings!!