Follow the path, wherever it goes
These last few weeks I have spent my creative time not making new music, but cataloging.
I’m gathering all of the pieces that I’ve started over the last several years and organizing them into current projects.
I wish I could tell you why this is so satisfying. It doesn’t feel like hiding from the work I need to do (I know well that feeling); rather, it feels as if I’m preparing. For what? I couldn’t possibly say.
I deeply believe in the process of creation. That process sustains me. But right now we are diverting and headed into deeper woods, deeper waters. I’m not sure why I feel compelled to do this, but I am indeed compelled.
All I can do is keep going, hold on, and trust that this path will find its way home eventually. Eventually it will make sense, this organization. Good will come of this.
As much as I love the process of creation, it is always full of surprises, and the path is really never the same way twice. But I think that’s how it is when we put ourselves in service of the work that wants to come through us.
Here’s to the path of creation, to the journey we take, and to whom we become with each new step.
My very best,
Philip
PS: In my organizing I have found a little piano sketch from 2020 that is begging to have a cello and violin scored with it. You can listen here if you like.
PPS: Who do you know that is also on the creative path? Share this email with them.