Keep going you jerk

a snow-shoing scribe's seasonal struggles

This is the fourth late February of the Foolsletter. It’s interesting to observe patterns in how I publish. I’ve kept a journal. There, I can trace and track my ebb and flow creatively.

It’s late February, so I’m sagging a bit. I’m behind.

Rick Rubin captures a lot of how I approach creativity. He’s both prolific and consistent while at the same time allowing himself room to breathe within the process. In The Creative Act, a way of being, Rubin says that a lot of the time when we’re sagging or distracted - whether it’s walking or whittling - we’re actually working on something in the background.

I’m a big proponent of this.

My biggest issue is that I get trapped in the land of distraction. I spend far too long letting something build in the background.

Having said that, that’s exactly what’s happening right now.

As this happens I’m on edge.

Watching the pieces of something bigger than I had imagined it would be slowly come together is excruciating. I want it all and I want it now with a …