Don’t think. Feel.

Aka do not use your mental pause button

Do you remember last week’s colour pencil pattern? I made a painted version of it this week( see above) I often mis quote Bruce Lee or someone like that saying, think before and by all means think afterwards but not whilst you do ( whatever it is you are doing). I believe that overthinking is an art of creating problems that aren’t there. Hah!

Hi. It’s Wednesday today and almost the middle of June. The water at the reservoir is staying put at around 17 degrees Celsius (62 Fahrenheit) and it’s such a nice cool warmth. I been collecting songs ( I use Shazam) from tv shows I listen to whilst working and then put together a playlist of songs. Songs that evoked some sort of feelings inside me, well, enough spark to make me abandon my work for a bit whilst pressing the Shazam button and waiting until Shazza has identified the artist/tune. I’m not sure how to share songs here but if I could I would.

( Well ok… I just looked it up, what it was ol’ Bruce’s boy said, exactly ( in a film) ‘Don’t think. Feel. Like it’s a finger pointing at the moon…’ and to me that translates well when drawing; Don’t think. Feel. And listen to some shit podcasts or low brow thrillers.

I mostly listen to hospital dramas so a lot of the songs I’ve collected are Cornily heartfelt; sad. Sometimes bleakly hopeful or, yea any kind of heartstring melancholic emotion. Lol. Swedish people like Sad shit. And despite living in the UK for a very long time I’m never as happy as when listening to a sad song; crying.

But once in a while, when learning new things, one HAVE to do some thinking. Be observant and take notes. I been doing this all spring, it’s been great. I felt like a scientist, like I was increasing my knowledge and then…I fell into the Overthinking trap. Was it a Bang or a splash? No I think I quietly slid into that hole.