My father asked me once when I was young what was most important: the result or the process. I said the process. He said I was wrong.
I wasn’t.
It’s about learning to love the process and leaving the result to what it is.
A great scene in 28 Days with Sandra Bullock where Viggo Mortenson (sp) is trying to teach her to pitch the ball at a big mattress target. She completely missed it. He told her she needed to concentrate on how she held the ball, her grip, her delivery, her weight, where she stepped — all process. Once the ball leaves your hand, he told her, you have no control over it.
That is the secret to life right there.
Lots of the same ideas in The Legend of Baggar Vance that the critics and powers- that- be decided was a bad movie (including Will Smith apparently who removed his credit from it or some such thing). Probably a bunch of people who aimed for a particular “result.”
And if you don’t love the process, find something where you do…
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I love words so I write them. I’ve been doing that since I was old enough to read. I am a published literary writer and I was an adjunct English professor at Northern Michigan University for many years. I write and live and love off the grid on 35 acres and a trout stream in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula with my son, Joshua, who has Down Syndrome, and with an English Shepherd dog named Maggie, and with my husband when he can make it here which isn’t often. This blog started out being about my work, and it will continue to be. ( I’m working on a novel about premonitions and dreams.) But this blog is also about living off the grid and about my experimentation with diet—most recently the Carnivore Diet. I started on the Ketogenic diet, but have moved into Carnivore. How long, I don’t know. But I’ve become interest in the effects of diet on not just my health, but on creativity. And I’m interested in the effects of the diet on my dreams.
Ah, dreams... The day before my son was born, my mother “dreamed” or was told my son would have Down Syndrome, something she told my brother ahead of time. I’ve never known what to make of that. So I’m interested in prophetic dreams, lucid dreaming, creativity and dreams, night terrors. Who isn't interested in that? I’m interested in Freud (more Jung) and Einstein’s theories of time and how their ideas inform my dreams. I’m interested in mining a deeper relationship with a dream world not confined to daytime experiences, and how the night might inform a more fully imagined daytime “reality.” And vice-versa. Which is the dream?? I’m exploring dreams of all sorts. Come explore with me…
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