11.01.25 - ‘Land Lines’

I love looking at the clouds, and many songs have had their start by this cloud-gazing. So that’s where this project is starting!

The creative process is one that needs to be stewarded well, continually refined, and exercised daily. I’ve given myself a month-long challenge of accomplishing the same creative task every day. My goal was three-fold: write something, record something, share something.

Each day, I’ll take a picture of the clouds that day. Visually, I think this will be a rewarding outcome in the end!

I’ll also write something. I’m keeping the bar achievable, so it doesn’t need to be an entire song. It doesn’t even need to be a great start. But it must be something.

And then I’ll combine the visual with the auditory and have a creative piece to post. My calendar will be populated by these ‘cloud comps.’ Some song might come from it, it might be nothing more than getting all the bad ideas out. But the end result will be the continual honing of the creative discipline. And a cool calendar with clouds to look at!

THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY:

I’ve been particularly overwhelmed with how tethered we are to being reachable. In the last month, I’ve tried to purposefully remove my phone from my proximity, even turning it off or existing with it being on silent for long durations of time.

This little drabble came from that. It’s nothing profound, but these things don’t need to be. This month, I’m simply exercising the process of exploring an idea until it goes somewhere.