121. Slow

It’s fun to talk about making art when it’s goin’ good; not so much when it’s not. But it’s all a part of the same picture.At physical therapy the other day, my therapist said, “half the battle is figuring out the esoterics of an injury. The path to healing is almost never obvious. “ He added that finding the balance between necessary movement and the overuse that caused injury in first place is challenging to home into because it’s a moving target. “If you avoid all movement because it hurts, your wrist will only become more rigid, more immobile. If you push it too much, you might hurt yourself further. The best thing to do,” he said, “is to hone your sensibility and instinct, to learn to listen to the body, so that you can load progressively while adapting constantly.”Lately I find myself drawing a lot of parallels between health valleys and creative valleys; the inexorable cycle of dips and crests with both; how, with all the shifting variables, there’s no hard-and-fast formula for…