where do we go from here
What I am thinking about right now is being in the moment. I'm trying to focus on the now. I keep repeating to myself hundreds of times a day, "Here now." As an artist, I think a really easy hole to fall into is one of self questioning or self doubt. By living in the moment, you don't abandon the present for some other place. Those doubts and thoughts are escape routes to avoid creativity. They lock us out of ourselves and our direct experience. It's like by thinking we rob the moment of beauty and live in a suspended past or projected future. I'm also considering the following, "If you can think about anything else, you aren't truly focusing on the moment." The second the mind wanders, learning stops, being stops, direct access to living stops. These things are the adversaries of the creative experience. Right now the birds are chirping outside. That's a good indicator spring is coming. I've not heard that sound in a long while. I wonder...