Over the years, I’ve tried numerous ways and means to support myself and to create the time and space to pursue my artistic endeavors.
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Creativity thrives on an openness and innocence (or perhaps wilful ignorance), a trust in the unknown and a delightful anticipation of the unexpected. It calls for a certain level of restriction, pressure or limitation: a time constraint, a budget limit, an equipment or materials limit, inexperience, weather conditions, client preferences, Mercury or Mars in retrograde, etc.
The challenge for an artist, or seeker, observer, conscious student and activist, is the very real need for solitude.
Is it half empty, or half full? Both, man! Quit being such a mind slave. Drink more water.
Perhaps the greatest tragedy isn’t suffering, disappointment, or uncertainty. Perhaps it’s forgetting that every ordinary day is an irreplaceable expression of life itself. We spend so much of our time searching for what comes next that we scarcely notice the immeasurable gift of what has already arrived.