Five Years.

I’ve been in New York for 8 months now. And it’s time I set about staying true to this process I started five years ago with this blog. To call the last few months a period of adjustment are an understatement. Some days I look at this area of Brooklyn I’m in and wonder just how I’ve gotten here while other days it seems as if this is the only place I could possibly be.

I’ve recently read a book about a practitioner who at one point believed that process was not involved in the formation of a final product – as such this person was said to believe that the process is the final product. The problem with that approach is that the process is similar to a second act of a play that never ends because it’s waiting for the third and final act to begin.

The other side might tell you to continue with the practice of the process and keep yourself open to further possibilities that can shape the way you think and approach what may become the third act. As simple as this seems it also what we use as shorthand when we talk about “artistic practice”.

The funny part about the blog is that it is nothing if not a second act.

The first week I moved here, I turned over a card from my deck of “Oblique Strategies” cards. The one I turned over said: “Consider Transitions” I laughed for about an hour and have yet to turn over a new card since.

My transition to New York was not an overly simple one. It started with a chain of events that saw a downturn in the economy and as a result, my “day job” and included, among other things the selling of my house, leaving a loyal group of friends behind, and a divorce. The upsides have been just as high as the lows have been.

Later today I’ll be turning over a new card to imagine even further possibilities. See you then.