Matt: It’s 3am and I am on deadline. It’s been a hard day. It’s been a LONG day. My wife is asleep, my son is asleep, my daughter is asleep. I’m not. Even so, I feel more alive doing this than anything else I could think of! Practicality tells me I should really being working - you know - WORKING - the stuff that generates income, pays the bills, keeps food in the fridge. But instead, I’m finishing up an illustration that will go up on a blog that maybe a hundred people (hopefully more) will visit this week. And not one of those visitors will pay a dime to see what either I or Lisa will post this week. And, you know what... that makes absolutely no difference to me. Why? Because I’m happy. I’m excited. I’m alive. No longer merely existing.
I really look forward to sitting down with Lisa every few weeks and having our standard 2 1/2 hour talks over coffee about simply ‘EVERYTHING’ in our heads. Creativity, life, spirituality, art, people, music, literature, culture, politics, possibilities, synchronicity, collaboration, physics, the paranormal, comedy, cinema, God, the economy... the list goes on and on and on. And so do we... writing things down, sketching, breying out loud like two free-range juvenile donkeys, rolling our eyes, gafawing, high five-ing, furrowing our brows. We are LIVING.
How many people get THAT chance? Or rather, how many people TAKE that chance?
Lisa: I've known a LOT of hard working people in my life
and Matt, YOU have to be one of the top picks for the Overtime Oscar.
You always keep things moving and productive. I often get emails from
you that were written in the wee hours of the morning.
Me: "Good God Man, go to BED!!!".
But no. There you are, with your priorities very straight making it all work. That's why THIS post of yours makes me SO happy!
I can just feel the bubbly effervescence sizzling off the pen as you draw furiously and that brain visualizes colors, soundtracks, video (probably even Smell) and every detail of the creative piece that's coming to fruition. You're SO right about the feeling of being ALIVE... that place of time loss and unidentifiable energy source. Working as we are for the moment, in our Creative Group, we can do/make/say anything that we want to. I love the fact that we have animators, videographers, sound techs, musicians, stylists, writers and other brilliant people circling us and asking: "...what can I do?...can I play too?..."
Yes. It's starting to gain momentum. I'm just grateful that when so many things seem to be off kilter, there's a place of sanity and healthy creative output. It's always within the circle of our Tribe.
