Beginning Is A Moment. Continuing Is A Practice.

Double Dutching In Any Weather

A black and white photograph of me wearing a canvas tunic I stitched together to continue to continue inside of. Photographer: Stephen L.A. Miller

Engage your sensorium.

Note something you can see, smell, hear, taste, touch, feel beyond the sense we have language for. Marvel at the fact that you have everything you need to begin in this exact moment.

Now note how you have everything you need to continue. Beginning is a moment, continuing is a practice.

I know the world as it is presented to us is a

place

space

idea

shape

because we insist on double dutching inside and outside it.

What else do I know?

I know the lights in my business flicker if I’m not fully engaged in my own creative project or practice. The lights flicker, not financially but energetically — a flicker that can be felt. There’s a cycle I know I can count on if I allow it. My art, my process and my methods teach me then I share what I have gathered from the well of my work and so forth and so on, but this regenerative cycle do…