2025-03-30 seeds

The best films are wondeful. Like lyric, they are worth revisiting over and over again. The problem with an audience based artifact is that it could feel shallow. Writings lose their power after the first reading. How can I create words that continue to be a balm even after the first reading? Perhaps the community feeling is best addressed through in-person efforts, while my writing should focus on creating work that sustains: quality over quantity.

The protagonist in Perfect Days didnt have friends because of the baggages that come with it. He has also obviously neglected family. But when they come, he really values them. He seems to lean in on fleeting but shallow relationships and even strangers. He has a very minimalistic life that helps him focus on life itself, on what matters for him.

The writing practice is a balance of lyrical, creative, beautiful writing and deep study of religion.

This will involve a daily practice of writing and reading lyrical philosophy and also a serious studying of jiyu shukyo materials.

Mindful reading
Journaling
Studying via talahardin

I will never have the skill to write like Andrew unless I really will have a calling for theology.

If none, I could stick with art instead.

Models

• Gordon Atkinson
• Wim Wenders

Probably the question is do I want to be a minister or not? I think given my position, organizing a community won't be a priority because we don't have a lot of people joining anyway. Therefore, writing.

Focus on:

• writing
• reading works in public
• creating spaces for these words to be heard
• workshops

In a way, I feel like I want to still learn how to write both: analytical and lyrical philosophy or religion.

I could write all kinds of things. But a good grounding question is: what kind of writing do I want to learn to master at least for the time being?

• poems
• Vignettes
• Lyrical philosophy

My Writing Life Project

How will I approach this project?

Phase 1

Withdrawal

• leave fb
• leave IG
• close Uman and TLW newsletters
• leave from all public writing

Phase 2

Research

Newsletter

Is it important to articulate it as a general thing or a specific thing? Should I articulate it instead as a wide container that is ever-changing and able to contain as many things as possible?

Minimalize everything: poetry books to read, other books to read, etc.

Let go of the pressure to produce writing.