Mundanity and Creativity

 Up at seven, and several times during the night. Very strange dreams, which are stranger because I do not recall the content but only the sensation of trouble.

I went through the email.

"Colonel Tom" rejected again:

It was such a pleasure reviewing your submission, and I am so grateful you took the time to submit such thoughtful and creative work to our new publication.

Unfortunately, we've decided not to include your work in our upcoming issue.

Please don't be discouraged by our decision, as it in no way reflects upon your talent nor the merits of your work. Indeed, I sincerely hope you'll send something in the next time we open for submissions.

Thank you once again for sharing this with us—it was a privilege.

Warm regards,

Chad M. Crabtree

Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief

Arboreal Literary Magazine

I do not know what to do with this mixture of admiration and rejecion.

Here's a bit of fun: The Time Thief Who Stole 106 Rare Clocks in a Daring Heist.

I probably should do a full post on Austin Kleon's The Creative Tensions, only I need to get some work done. I leave you with the following and the admonition to read the full essay:

The basic idea of the talk is that creative work has a series of tensions which are created by opposing forces. These tensions are not to be avoided or alleviated, but embraced as energy sources and sites of creative possibility.

Heraclitus talked about the lyre (think of a small harp) and bow and arrow. I used the metaphor of a guitar: If a guitar string is wound too slack, it buzzes and makes no note. If it’s wound too tight, it’ll snap. Either way, no music. There is a proper tension that makes the string sing.

And so it is with tension in creative work: we can’t really avoid it, we can only find the proper tension.

It is worth your time, and something I need to try keeping in mind. 

I am missing Backwoods, but I can listen to the archived show. I think a trip to McClure's and a shower and a bit of work on "Psychotic Ape" before working on M's project.

Have a good day. I still need to mention the raccoons.

Firefox crashed 3, 4 times. I restart and it is fine. A mystery.

sch 10:44