After work,

it’s time to collect.  Assess.  What you’ve done for the day, imagine where you see yourself, wherever that is, professionally or personally.  And if you’re already there, what you learn from it.  Being there.  Your There. Eating almonds before class, taking sip from a Coke which I never do, and replaying day.  Everything from the…

thought

You start a new job and don’t know what to think.  You might feel anxious or insecure, maybe even eager or antsy.  I’ve always found, always, that making it your own is the answer.  For everything in any new job or new class, some new experience be it living in a new city, neighborhood, state. …

notes

Kids build with blocks.  The metaphor’s so obvious it’s nearly criticizing me for not enacting the same for more of my life and story’s pages.  Quiet in the studio with the occasional skirmish between the six year-old little Kerouac and 2 Ms. Austen. What will benefit you is just trying, everything, playing, building odd structures…