If you’re established in a craft or field, temporary rules may be useful to break a pattern. They can challenge you to become better, to innovate, an… - Rick Rubin

Though we can’t change what it is that we are noticing, we can change our ability to notice.

When something doesn’t go according to plan, we have a choice to either resist it or incorporate it.

Not all projects take time, but they do take a lifetime. In calligraphy, the work is created in one movement of the brush. All the intention is in that single concentrated movement. The line is a reflection of the energy transfer from the artist’s being, including the entire history of their experiences, thoughts, and apprehensions, into the hand. The creative energy exists in the journey to the making, not in the act of constructing.