The matter of individual maturation is a custom endeavour. There can be no rote, “do this, then this.”*
Clarissa Pinkola Estés

The real talent is being obsessed with the thing. What are you willing to focus on wholeheartedly that you are happy to ignore nearly everything else?**
James Clear

First you find yourself
and then you lose yourself–

First you learn the rules
and then you make your own–

First you focus
and then you flow^–

*Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ Women Who Run With The Wolves;
**James Clear’s 3-2-1 newsletter: The secret to creativity, how our challenges shape us, and the value of bad workouts.
^Here is my hinterland to the short “poetic”: I have come to know myself as an individual – this has involved a journey from dependence to independence and then to interdependence (shaping my ego and then my Self); also, my creativity began with what already existed, from those who’d explored before me, so I learnt several fields – and then I set out to change them, by adapting and improvising, and coming up with something different; I have become totally absorbed in what I have found and am making, entering into what Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi identified and defined as flow.

SOME RANDOM THIN|SILENCE
THIN|SILENCE FROM A YEAR AGO