Learn how to write anywhere, any time, in any conditions,
Starting from nowhere.
All you really need is your head, the one indispensable
requirement.*
Verlyn Klinkenborg

Why shouldn’t an anonymous career spent quietly helping a few people get to qualify as a meaningful way to spend one’s time? Why shouldn’t an absorbing conversation, an act of kindness, or an exhilarating hike get to count? Why adopt a definition that rules such things out.**
Oliver Burkeman.

Because this is not only about writing, I’ll add
body to head – all we need to begin something;
We learn as we go, we do, we wander in playfulness,
Which leads to more doing, more possibility –
Whatever piques our interest,
Develops our skills,
And makes a difference.

Mind-wandering can derail us from urgent work but offers the gift of making prospection possible. When we successfully imagine the future, it can come alive in our sense in the present.^

*Verlyn Klinkenborg’s Several short sentences about writing;
**Oliver Burkeman’s Meditations for Mortals;
^Bina Venkataram’s The Optimist’s Telescope.