This statement resonates with me: “Painting involves companioning oneself through a process that requires staying in the moment. When I am open to it, I see parts of me emerge that sometimes surprise me.”

I feel that way about writing or storytelling as well, as I’m sure you do.

Although with writing or storytelling there is an odd duality involved. Thinking about a story I want to tell requires me to put myself somewhere else and sometime else, either through memory or imagination. But the act of writing requires me to be focused and present in the act of creating.