Chance Drums

It took me a long time to figure out that a clean space is a clean mind. Not an easy task for a creative person as our minds are often scattered and jumping from one idea to the next.

It’s important to embrace that part of ourselves but also to carve out another part that keeps things in order. I spent many years being disorganize and wildly unproductive. It’s still a struggle but it starts with the intention.

Set your aim on an ideal and take baby steps towards that. For me that was being organized and not procrastinating. I haven’t conquered it but I’ve made progress.

That’s all we can hope for and I think it’s a win.

Happy 4th to all my fellow Yankees. Happy Thursday to everyone else :)

Today marks another year around the sun. A year filled with blessings. A year filled with pain. Such is life.

As I grow older it doesn’t feel like I grow smarter or wiser, it feels like there are layers of ignorance that fall off. Like there’s an insight inside me that’s always been there that I’ve learned to forget. It’s a simple awareness of the magnificent here and now. When I forget about that is when the problems of life rush back in and everything seems so complicated, chaotic, and negative.

I’m certainly more and more aware of my own importance and impending death, that is salient. But it’s giving me a sense of purpose and meaning to make something of my life and be a blessing to others when I can and use whatever tools I was born with for the Good.

I’m full of gratitude. For you. For you us.