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Eric Steffensen
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10/27/2008 11:03:57 PM
Just Nonsensical (a creative exercise)
Is there anything in the void?
I sit alone and stare around trying to find a meaning in the emptiness. I was told once that clearing your head was a good way to start meditation, or to allow yourself to channel something else. Sometimes I can stare at the blank slate and the words appear on the page. But other times it feels like I'm just sitting and staring...sitting and staring at a blank page not knowing what to write, knowing that anyone who's going to read what I'm writing is itching to make a snap judgment deciding whether to move on, or to follow this train of thought deeper...
So I go deeper into the void, still hoping that inspiration might soon strike...still hoping that a clear mind will reveal deeper meaning and deeper truths. But the only deeper truth I realize is that what I'm writing are mostly wasted words without any real meaning. The monkey mind won't stop and keeps going like a hamster running on a wheel, or like a really nightmarish NASCAR race. Surely something's bound to crash soon? But the hamster never gets tired and the drivers keep on driving fast in a circle and the pointless meaningless words keep spilling out on the page, mostly to my dismay.
ADD is an interesting distraction. At this point its the only thing that's keeping this blog post going. I really have to thank you for reading this far. I must assume at this point that you're at the very least slightly amused, or perhaps even entertained. Who would have thunk that writing about nothing could be so entertaining? Maybe Jerry Seinfeld was on to something...
Lately I've observed that truth is about the most difficult thing to find. Everyone with an opinion or a world view seems to find a way to make the facts fit their world view. And if that doesn't work, twisting or misrepresenting the facts seems to do a nice job of filling in the gaps. I think I'm finding this particularly frustrating because as humankind, we all seem to be facing some enormous challenges. And often just about every solution that's proposed to these massive problems seems to be linked to an ideology that's supported by just some of the facts. Where are the innovative solutions that are ideologically free? Where are the leaders that can bring together people of all different viewpoints and find compromise? Have we all become unpersuadable? Will stubbornness be the downfall of the human race?
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Auset
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10/28/2008 8:31:49 AM
Well, I tried. I love this question and put over 30 minutes into a response. When I hit submit... apparently my log in timed out. Once directed to the login, my response completely disappeared.
Until I can find more time to re-respond... I will start off with this suggestion:
Turn off the TV, the radio opinionator, the programming. Start there and see what natural ideas and feelings occur.
p e a c e.
A
*** Note to IAC... seems that if someone is in active typing mode, that the login should continue. Guess I'll write the staff.
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Holo Lukaloa
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10/28/2008 10:34:03 AM
You can't be impatient when looking for something that really matters to you. Weeks could go by and then suddenly you could be staring at several things that hit you right in the gut.
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Eric Steffensen
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10/28/2008 3:45:16 PM
Long ago, before I was a songwriter, I joined a local discussion group that was reading and going through the exercises in the Artists Way. Some of those exercises proved to be very useful as a way to clear blocks to my own creativity. One such exercise was to do "morning pages" every morning, where you did a brain dump onto paper of the first thing that came to your mind. It didn't matter if it made sense. This proved to be a very useful tool to clear out the garbage that blocked true creativity. Incidentally, I wrote my first songs as a direct result of The Artists Way.
By writing this post last night, in a sense I was doing another brain dump. And interestingly enough it led to a train of thought that has been bubbling beneath the surface for quite some time, about people being opinionated, stubborn and unpersuadable. Maybe there's a new song here somewhere?
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Batina
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10/28/2008 5:15:44 PM
not bad tarotkid . . . pursue truth patiently, earnestly, quietly, and with the utmost of trust that it will come. . . . and it will come, then each one teach one.
peace kiddo,
to love is to endure,
Batina
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