Discipline

I feel like tonight is New Year’s Eve.  Like tomorrow morning I will wake up with both a reset hourglass and an edict to grapple with newly made resolutions.  Why do I have this feeling?  Because I feel like life has been an insane fever dream for some time now,  and it all came to a head today.  Something broke,  and something has to change.  More on all that at a later time.  How will this affect O+S?  I’m not sure yet.  But if I’m able to follow through with my 2 strongest urges - to adopt a daily meditation practice & a daily writing/recording discipline - I suspect the effect will be great.  David Lynch,  who had such an influence on how we approached writing the songs on the first O+S album,   is coincidentally inspiring me in these matters as well.  I’ve been reading his book ‘Catching the Big Fish’,  and the relationship he describes between meditative life and creative life is compelling.  GOD knows after the events of the last few weeks reflection and creativity are much needed in my life!  I’d like to use this space to talk about these things - the world of spirit, the world of creation and the world of O+S - until we complete our next album.  Then we can evaluate whether we continue or stop.  Neither I or Orenda has blogged before,  so please bear with us while we figure out what it’s all about!  Should be interesting…  (S)