September 7

I don’t really have any good ideas today. “They say to keep the practice going",” Bryana says. Bryana writes every morning, a stream of consciousness exercise to clear your mind in preparation for a new day. I think. I don’t really know. I should ask more questions.

I was just talking about questions yesterday. Was it yesterday? It might’ve been two days ago, but either way questions are fresh on my mind. As much as I say it’s important to focus on those questions actively, you can only do that for little chunks of time before you start to paralyze yourself. Obviously, it wouldn’t be beneficial to you to paralyze yourself. You want to maintain some motion. To be in motion is to be alive.

I wrote a song once called Being Alive. Go ahead, see if you can find it. It was a very long time ago. I’ve come a long way, but I still feel kind of the same. Anyway, I’ll jump into some songs we’ve been working on and try not to think too much about things I can’t fix today, and then I’ll watch some football and walk the dog and eat dinner and go to sleep full and happy.

I don’t know if this is exactly the exercise Bryana does. Her entries are much longer, which seems like it would be a little exhausting to me to be honest, but she’s over a month in and that’s something to be proud of. So there ya go, I did it. Kind of? Maybe. Who knows? Who cares? I do. That’s what matters.

-J.P.