Piano's, Blindfolds, and the Polar Vortex.

 I've written a little reminder for myself, for what's on my mind, and am keeping it in front of my desk:

Prioritize

Execute

Improve

And as I was writing "Improve" it struck me that if you remove the last "e" it becomes "Improv"

Improv dance is really important to me, as an experience of flow and fearlessness. Of growth mindset and being directed by intuition, and of letting the mistakes and learning be a game, which allows me to be comfortable taking more risks, which allows me to grow faster and create better stuff, and enjoy the process. And it was an experience of action done as worship, as an act of devotion to source, to God.

Improv dance was a very specific medium to practice these skills, and they don't automatically transfer over, but the fact that I did it in one arena of life gives me a bootstrap to other areas of life, a general ideal to aim for. I've done it in a few other mediums, like writing/drawing narratives in a certain magical teachers classes, but none for as long and persistently.

I am feeling like I have more time, like I'm getting more productive and focused and efficient, so the work I am doing on that seems to be working. (Though not yet done). I shouldn't be surprised, but it's always kind of magical to me, to see personal change in action. It's like when I do a drawing from life, I'm focusing on proportion and line etc. and then when I step back and look at what I've done, the fact that it looks like a real thing is always magical and delightful to me.

I've gotten it into my head that I want to restart the piano, since we've got one that came with the house, and it keeps getting delayed. First I needed to find something to teach me, so that took time to research, and then when I finally set up my ipad with the app, it turned out it was horribly off pitch (which shouldn't have been a surprise) so I needed to find a piano tuner, which I did, but nobody is leaving their house today because the polar vortex is down in Texas and it's done the freezing rain thing (with tons of huge branches falling off trees) and the serious snow thing.

I should be grateful that we haven't had any interruptions in power I suppose, many people have had power out in the 7 degree weather, and other have had rolling power outages to manage all the extra energy going into heating homes not designed for these temperatures.

Oh, and I had a couples weekend workshop over valentines day and the preceding days, which was quite nice as well, and I've got some new things to play with in that arena of my life.

Today was a day off from school, but I had to spend it doing planning for school anyways, since we're going to be online for a day or three while the weather is crazy.

OK, time for bed. Love to you all, and stay safe.