I was in total control yet I still felt like a monkey, stepping on stage and doing the same tricks I knew so well. The shows were going great but some nights I felt empty. This brings me to today’s guest essay and prompt by the musician and writer These hours feel mystical and sacred, and I try to meet the stillness with my undivided attention, to listen for what arises in the silence. I’ve even stopped listening to music or podcasts. ![]() All this time, I resist the urge to open my computer, to start firing off emails, to attack my to-do list. I read and write in my journal, then feed and walk the dogs. I inevitably drip the coffee all over my sweater, then sit beside the fire and drink what’s left of it. I wake up well before the sun rises, make my coffee, gather some wood, and build a fire. So as an antidote to the torrential busyness, I’ve been trying to cultivate stillness and quiet each morning. The times when I’ve been forced to lie fallow have spurred me toward the most fertile creative periods of my life. Had I not relapsed, I can’t imagine that I would have taken up painting. ![]() Without the pandemic, I would not have started the Isolation Journals. I would not have written my column, gone on my solo cross-country road trip, or written my memoir if my first diagnosis had not forced me into stillness. Interestingly, those quiet moments set off huge creative growth spurts in me. But there were moments in the past where the din disappeared-for example, the first time I got sick, the early days of the pandemic, and when I learned of my leukemia recurrence. Between emails, texts, phone calls, and my own inner dialogue, which ranges from worries about my health to what’s happening in the news, the noise never quite stops. ![]() Recently, I’ve been thinking about how relentlessly busy we are. It was in that stillness and silence that I first discovered and began to cultivate my interior life. I adorned the walls and ceiling with glow-in-the-dark stars, and I’d crawl into it with my comforter and a little light to draw or read or daydream about what I wanted to be when I grew up. I had a closet in my bedroom-it was actually the understairs of the attic-that was the perfect nook, so tiny and dark with no windows. I was regularly enveloped by expansive pockets of stillness and silence, and in those moments, I escaped into imaginatively rich landscapes. Other times, in want of something to do, we dove into pure mischief, like the time we used Swiss army knives to carve our initials into the windowsills all around the house.īut what I do know is that as a young person, I had the opportunity to be bored much more often than I do now. Sometimes boredom spurred us into wild flights of imagination, like composing and performing a play for our friends and neighbors. It was true, though “best” may be a bit of a stretch to describe some of the things my brother and I came up with. “It’s from boredom that the best ideas spring into being,” my mother used to tell us when we were young. Try it return it if you dont like it within 2 hours of play.Daniel Hudson Burnham, Bay of Tunis Through Porthole of Steamship (1896) Save often.Īdjust to seeing nothing but desert hills lol Starsand is still in EA but its pretty good as is. There is plenty of resources and the game mechanics is pretty simple I like this.Ĭant compare it to my fav survival games such as Green Hell and Subsistence Medieval Dynasty, The long Dark was ok but it didnt grab me nor The Forest and it's ugly infected humans. The fire and cooking is really easy we dont need to boil water. ![]() The game will start you in like a tutorial and once you complete that most of the survival skills are learnt, like make a fire a place to save and sleep. This game is developed by the same developers Toplitz productions that made Medieval Dynasty. Originally posted by Jaunitta □:Its not a bad game just takes time to to get used to the vastness of desert.Įach survival game runs on a different game engine and so our survival needs are fufilled different
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