Summertime/Easy

It's summer time again. Some supportive friends and I, really creative people, (some don't know it) went camping. It was a blast and nurturing as a writer to get out of the same sorts and change our environment. And it is Bike Night in my hometown. Talk about creatives, rolling artwork everyone. To me it is nurturing the well. Let it rain some to fill the well, the creative well that I use for the basic "water" to sustain my creative health. At the end of the week I sorted thru my colllection of images I had stored for over ten years. Visual images. There are images that are other senses, other "input formats." For creativity there is nothing like an open mind and an artistic anarchy (The only rule is there are no rules). So I go thru magazines, underground newspapers, mainstream media and collect images. Pinterest time. Replenishing time. Wherever. I jot words that strike me in a "chill mode." In an "I got to use that somewhere" mindset. It might fit for a transitional group of words. It could make it for a full paragraph, even a chapter and then even a book. Slogan; Keep an open mind. Everything is coming into place. I see a regular writing schedule, 2,3 hrs. and 3-5 honest pages coming into manifestion. Today is the first day of the rest of my life. And I am pleasurably excited. Cerebral knowledge is about to be exposed. It's summertime and the walks are comfortable, the bones moving gracefully, pacing strides, and changing scenery. Newness is barking at me, nipping at my heels. It is officially summertime, sweet summertime, long cool nights to write, long into the night if I want. It is part of a cycle, where I really had come down hard on writing twenty years ago soaking up the moxiness on those summertime nights, seeking the cool breeze and creativity and the hot sensuality of a summertime moment.

Don't wait for a creative writing assignment. Pick one for yourself. Whether it is straight jumping into the waters, calm and/or turbulent in their own time. Don't feel like writing? Write anyway. The mood comes during the writing process. Don't wait. Jump on in. "Let it begin w/ me." Maybe it is a stepping stone. Maybe you finally landed on your own planet, the home keys. Maybe you are hunting and pecking. Find your place on the mountain. Every place has its purpose. Now is the time, this moment. Here is the place to be.

I have started to take it easy for three weeks, where the third week in June seems to be about time for beginning a vacation. It's been a working vacation, still more like half holidays and less pushing, more taking it easy, and we all know in our hearts "easy does it," does it, and gets it done. It's a mantra, an m.o., a modus operandi, a mode, a style of operations. I have got more organizing done. Card tables cleared off, more unplanned progress done, more solutions and thinking outside the "box." It has been productive to take two steps back and find a comfort zone, a rate that I could maintain indefinitely. Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy!

I found in my organizing a magazine called Dialogue, a local periodical on the art scene in my part of the state. Dialogue is such a powerful word. As a writer it is even more powerful; relationships of all sorts and kinds have as a keystone dialogue at the heart. Take time to dialogue w/ your creative self, diety, others, characters, and find the journey is the destiny, the flowstate is being in the moment of doing and there also in "doing nothingness." Don't just sit there doing nothing, meditate in the beingness! Write! Yes, today!