even flow state
My therapist is a marathon runner, he recently ran the NYC marathon. We were talking about the “flow state”. He said while running he enters a state where the energy to keep going comes through him from something other than himself. “flow state” happens to musicians, athletes, and probably all kinds of other people doing all kinds of other things, whether they cook, run, play trumpet, figure skate…whatever. It’s fuckin transcendence, man.
This happens to me when the act of writing is at its best, I get myself out of the way and it comes through me. I think I’ve described this several times, but I’m glad to report that I can get back into it more dependably lately. the whole thing was turned off for a while, but it came back.
I was afraid that it was gone forever, and I missed writing. thank god I can do it again. all 50 billion million readers can breathe a sigh of relief.
I had this thing I wanted to write about and i guess I’ll get at it now, it’s the reason I said there are 50 billion million readers.
Cameron Crowe directed a documentary about pearl jam for their 20th anniversary. it is great, I’m not a huge pearl jam follower since the 90s but the film gave me a whole new level of respect for what they’re about. They had a singer before Eddie Vedder, who died of a heroin overdose (that’s so Seattle 1991, isn’t it?)
the surviving band members remembered that he would play little clubs like he was playing to 24,000 people at Madison square garden.
I write like it’s playing Madison square garden. Probably no one is paying any attention, but I’m so egotistical, I like to think all kinds of folks are.
isn’t that weird?
