I’m here, feeling like a refugee from IG where I felt peppered by ads, half truths, and falsehoods. Yes there was art and some community but the filtering needed was a big job. You make well said points about caring for our attention. Thank you.
"Because the mind is not simply a storage unit for facts. It is also a climate. It is a field condition. It is the weather in which images arrive, thoughts ripen, and subtle intuitions become available."
Great essay for sure. I get overwhelmed so easily; always have and that caused unnecessary stress. I've learned that FOMO (fear of missing out) is irrational, time consuming, anxiety-making, and dumb. If I want to relax and go to a home page of youtube videos, I gravitate to ones I feel I want to know about and skip the rest. Tomorrow I may skip the ones I picked the day before and taste those I let go of then. I like choice but not too much yet have learned that I don't need all of it. As for creating art, like the present piece I've been working on......I've gathered a lot of objects I thought would work for the piece but as it was forming what it's supposed to be, I am choosing to not use several of the items I thought I had wanted. I'm respecting my choices as that is giving me the time to reflect seriously as to what is needed and what isn't. I'm being more thoughtful and realizing that just because I spent a lot of time on preparing an item to use, if it doesn't feel right in my soul, I don't have to use it on the piece. It's really good to have choice and not get overwhelmed by the gluttony of junk/stuff/things out there that are screaming for my attention.
Bravo Cecil
I’m here, feeling like a refugee from IG where I felt peppered by ads, half truths, and falsehoods. Yes there was art and some community but the filtering needed was a big job. You make well said points about caring for our attention. Thank you.
"Because the mind is not simply a storage unit for facts. It is also a climate. It is a field condition. It is the weather in which images arrive, thoughts ripen, and subtle intuitions become available."
I'm committing that to memory. Thank you.
Great essay for sure. I get overwhelmed so easily; always have and that caused unnecessary stress. I've learned that FOMO (fear of missing out) is irrational, time consuming, anxiety-making, and dumb. If I want to relax and go to a home page of youtube videos, I gravitate to ones I feel I want to know about and skip the rest. Tomorrow I may skip the ones I picked the day before and taste those I let go of then. I like choice but not too much yet have learned that I don't need all of it. As for creating art, like the present piece I've been working on......I've gathered a lot of objects I thought would work for the piece but as it was forming what it's supposed to be, I am choosing to not use several of the items I thought I had wanted. I'm respecting my choices as that is giving me the time to reflect seriously as to what is needed and what isn't. I'm being more thoughtful and realizing that just because I spent a lot of time on preparing an item to use, if it doesn't feel right in my soul, I don't have to use it on the piece. It's really good to have choice and not get overwhelmed by the gluttony of junk/stuff/things out there that are screaming for my attention.
Good reasoning,