How Can You Make the Most of Tough Times?

The last couple of months have been difficult, as I’m sure it has for you. I’ve largely worked from home with a three-year-old toddler battling for my attention. I worry about those I love catching this horrible virus or losing their livelihoods from the economic fallout. I miss seeing people I care about. It’s hard to find a silver lining.

Through time immemorial, people have faced challenges: war, poverty, famine, death, and yes, disease. One of the few bright spots to come out of it, however, is the creation of great works that will never leave us: music, novels, poems, plays, you name it.

Shakespeare, for example, created many works, including “King Lear,” with the specter of bubonic plague hovering over him. The greatest anti-war painting in history, 1937’s “Guernica” by Pablo Picasso, reflected the pain he experienced reading about the village’s bombing during the Spanish Civil War.

Perhaps what I’ve appreciated about this time is the opportunity it provides for reflection. In his convention-defying masterpiece “Tropic of Cancer,” Henry Miller wrote: “An artist is always alone – if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.”

It is hard to reflect, and thus hard to create, without it. If nothing else, I hope you can use this time to create something, too.

It doesn’t matter if you’re recording an album or podcast or working from your home office, the mission for us here at Auralex is to make the space you inhabit sound the best it can.

A note: I am the new content marketing manager for Auralex. A couple of weeks ago, I received the news. Given the hardships many are going through right now, I certainly realize how lucky I am. I know Auralex well from one of my previous stops, at CEDIA, and I am excited to bring fresh content to the premier brand in the acoustics industry.

Like most businesses, Auralex is dealing with the unpredictability wrought by this pandemic. There’s no beating around the bush: the world has changed. Supply chains are a mess and shipping and delivery is affected.

The folks here are working their tails off to make sure customers get their products in a timely fashion. I can attest to this firsthand, having helped (in whatever small way I can) in the warehouse and seen them plowing away.

I am excited to begin this new role, and I want to have an ongoing dialogue with you as to what you’re looking for, what interests you, what you’re curious about. You can reach me through email or Twitter. Thanks for reading, and good luck in your own content creation journey!