by Kayla Norris | Nov 26, 2023 | Loving Jesus, The Creative Heart
I skipped along the streets of London, noting the bakeries. I wasn’t actually hungry. I had my phone out, camera on, ready to capture the loaves of bread tucked in shop windows. I was doing a little “research”—I’m in the midst of...
by Kayla Norris | Jul 21, 2023 | Relationships, The Creative Heart
“We are far too easily pleased.” -C.S. Lewis We were in the London Underground, waiting for the Elizabeth Line. The conversation turned to Harry Potter. I didn’t grow up with Harry Potter, but I remember the wars. Should you, shouldn’t you. Witchcraft is real, and...
by Kayla Norris | Jun 19, 2023 | International Travel, The Creative Heart
You know that moment when you watch a movie trailer and think, “I have to see this”? But then you find out it’s not on any streaming platforms you have? The worst. That was me in 2019 when I saw the trailer of “Many Beautiful Things: The Life...
by Kayla Norris | Oct 17, 2022 | The Creative Heart
fear is the mind-killerparading around like grieftelling you it’s going to hurtthwarting your hopemessing with memoriestwisting them to some version of the futurethat you won’t dare walk towards fear is the mind-killerplaying tricks with your eyescausing...
by Kayla Norris | Oct 17, 2022 | The Creative Heart
all stories are two-edged swordsbut you will tell them anyway and You say it in a way that implies i like that. but it is something that haunts me: fame and fortune, stories that are so goodthat they get so bigthat somehow they’re no longer your own they get...
by Kayla Norris | Dec 31, 2021 | The Creative Heart
It started as a coping mechanism. I was in charge of multiple international young adults and couldn’t turn my brain off. So I picked up 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and took a deep dive into the colourful world of Jules Verne. Then I slept. Four years on, I still...