“The hours fly. The sculptress and the tree-climbing tyke both look up blinking when Mom calls, ‘Suppertime!'” –Steven Pressfield, The War of Art.
My sculpture or tree to climb was my first screenplay, Blue Monk. Now it’s this endeavor!
What the tyke and the sculptress have in common is unaware enlightenment. So lost in that tree or work of art that they are totally oblivious to anything else… even supper.
That lady yelling “Suppertime’ is now my fiancée. But I’m lucky; she actually waits for me to finish, and quite patiently at that… THANK YOU, KENNY!
Now we aren’t all lucky enough to be a sculptress for a living. Nor can we be tree-climbing tykes forever, at least not literally..
But I bet there is something we all do that makes us feel enlightened enough to become totally oblivious. As if we are climbing the tallest tree that God has sculpted for us.
For me, you’re looking at it!!
So…..
THANK YOU for hanging with me in my TREE!
P.S. This is one of many great quotes from The War of Art. Artists (or anyone) needs to read this book.