Reminders for myself

Playing is the whole point

If your life is cluttered, your creativity will be too.

If you are unfocused, your creative expression will be too.

If your brain is overstimulated, your ideas won’t have enough oxygen to breathe.

If your self-worth is tied to your last post, painting, or paycheck, then creativity will always feel like a rigged game.

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Viewing creativity as the gravity point around which everything else orbits is something we have to start practicing if we care about our sanity and keeping creation a sustainable long-term practice.

but, to practice the mind ... it is infinitely more difficult to wrangle the maelstrom of thoughts and feelings and fragments. it requires diligence to cut and rearrange and polish until it glows. to bring order and shape to the pile of spaghetti inside my skull - this is my practice.