Fired up right now, with lots of creative ideas zipping around in my head and seemingly little time in which to express them. Something is telling me I have more to do, and that the office I work in right now is not the place in which I am meant to do it. I know I like this place and the people in it, but I have got more to give. Maybe it's possible to satisfy myself outside of work, through my dancing and composing: all I know is that I am growing and changing. Life is in transition right now, but I have been fighting it. I need to ride that wave.
I think the first thing to do is eliminate excess noise and distraction. I need to hear my own music. Thing is, though, that music and words come at the oddest times. The other day, I was talking with Natasha about the theme for our upcoming dance performance, and boom! All of a sudden, after a week of coming up with bubkus, something she said, just a little turn of a phrase, set me writing again. I guess the main thing is not to be so constantly filing my head with noise (i.e. television, the news, too much listening to my iTunes library). I just need to give myself more time to listen and to think. This seems to be when really cool things happen. This so-called age of information is the potential death of creativity because we don't have enough time to stop and look around us, unless we make the time to do so.
Deep. So now, a reminder to myself...
I think the first thing to do is eliminate excess noise and distraction. I need to hear my own music. Thing is, though, that music and words come at the oddest times. The other day, I was talking with Natasha about the theme for our upcoming dance performance, and boom! All of a sudden, after a week of coming up with bubkus, something she said, just a little turn of a phrase, set me writing again. I guess the main thing is not to be so constantly filing my head with noise (i.e. television, the news, too much listening to my iTunes library). I just need to give myself more time to listen and to think. This seems to be when really cool things happen. This so-called age of information is the potential death of creativity because we don't have enough time to stop and look around us, unless we make the time to do so.
Deep. So now, a reminder to myself...
Sunset over the pond at Phoenix Ranch, near Romulus, NY. Be still and listen.
2 comments:
Sometimes, we need the silence to hear within... however, it's in response to the outside world that one feels the need to create something new... no?
True: creativity is coloured by experience. I guess it's important to find balance, being occasionally quiet and alone without completely cutting oneself off from the world.
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