Day 48 of Year 2
Really focusing on play and releasing all expectations of a finished product tonight. This means not letting a possible future (a finished piece of art) influence the present moment. It's a challenge to stay in the now. It's difficult not to worry if what I am doing will negatively influence the outcome of my piece. But once I get into the flow, there is so much freedom and so much spaciousness. This is the space where transformation happens.
Oceans
By Juan Ramon Jimenez, Trans Robert Bly
I have a feeling that my boat
has struck, down there in the depths,
against a great thing. And nothing
happens! Nothing…Silence…Waves… –Nothing happens? Or has everything happened,
and are we standing now, quietly, in the new life?
from News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness, Edited by Robert Bly. https://amzn.to/2NNzGtH