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.
Tag: presence
In, or out. Why play games?
In a society rife with the cowardly and superficial, we need to get into the habit of stepping up more often and daring greatly.
It’s not something you can pretend to do or be. It’s a practice. It’s a regimen. It’s falling, standing, dealing with emotional or spiritual invaders and the endless this-and-that of all this.
Old programs (-isms, habits, reactions, triggers) will not always go silently. They intertwine with our routines, our beliefs, and our perceptions.
A day slips by whether we meet it consciously or let it carry us along. What we choose — or avoid — leaves a quiet imprint, even when no one else sees it.