Mortar Matters: What Do You Use to Hold Things Together?

If your life were built of bricks and you were the mason, how would you hold things together?

What would you use to make each brick stick and everything stick together? What would you use for mortar?

The Thing That Makes Things Stick

For me, it’s writing. It isn’t, I’m finding out, something I can just fit in somewhere. There’s no specific time or place where I can store it. It’s with me all the time and it’s everywhere I go.

All in all, it’s not another brick in the wall.

If I set it aside, things seem to crumble. If I pick it back up, things start to stick together again.

It is the mortar of my life. It fills the empty spaces and connects one thing to another.

This is what drawing must be to Danny Gregory, what music must be to Fabeku Fatunmise, what photography must be to David and Libby NIghtingale.

The Mortar Matters Most to Me

From one day to the next, I may or may not draw, may or may not pick up my guitar, and life will feel much the same. But if I miss one day of writing, I can sense it.

Writing is how I generate ideas and solutions. It’s how I make decisions. It’s what I do for me and and what I do for you. It’s what I have to give.

And, for that reason, I can’t simply squeeze it in. Instead, I heap it on the trowel and spread it throughout my day as I build my life, brick by brick.

What’s the Mortar with You?

How are you holding it all together? Where’s your mortar?

Are you using it liberally or simply trying to squeeze it in?

What could you build if you always kept it by your side?

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