Grins and Gardens

By ice rivers

Sat, 06 Aug 2016
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As you may have noticed, I've had a mental block going lately so I need to type my way out of it.

As an artist (or at least a person who while no longer starving is certainly obscure) I am completely familiar with mental blocks. I face them all the time in the creative process. I've learned to grin them down like Davey Crockett grinned "im down a bar" when he was only three".

I be grinnin' raht now as I type and recall the important truths about mental blocks as I break through this one

1) they are inevitable
2) uh wait, I can't think what 2 was going to be so let's go with uh
3) they are inevitable
4) whoops 3 and 1 are the same
5) don't be afraid to go back to the beginning
6) don't stop
7) the block represents a deepening in the problem solving process
8) they are walls surrounding a private garden
9) the higher the walls the more beautiful the garden
10) You don't think anyone would waste all this time buidling these walls to protect a crappy garden, do you?
11) When you get over the wall, the garden will be your reward
12) the garden is more beautiful than you imagined it was when you were outside of the walls trying to imagine how beautiful the garden is
13) Don't be surprised if there are some lions in the garden
14) Pretend the lions are bears and grin 'em down
15) when you get done with this garden there will be another wall and another garden than another garden than a mountain than there is no mountain than there is.
16) Obviously Donavon knew something about mental blocks when he wrote that song however his garden earned him a gazillion bucks whereas our unconfronted mental blocks, if time is money, actually cost us a gazillion bucks over the course of a lifetime as we go about living somebody else's life and not the life we imagined or deserved.
17) well look at dat.
I finally wrote something

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