I’m curious about something. Can you guys help me out?

Why do we have a practice at all? I have my own reasons, some of which definitely go deep into the airy-fairy, but the most obvious and the most practical is this:

I can’t resist putting up one more ballet story from my great friend and mentor, David Leddick.

My great friend and mentor (and also my first boss), David Leddick, spent several years as a ballet dancer with the Metropolitan Opera. David trained with a celebrated teacher named Margaret Craske.

Have you ever seen the books (and magazine) Where Women Create by Jo Packham? They’re prose-and-photo shoutouts to craftspersons—all female.

I was thinking about the activities that come most immediately to mind when we think of “having a practice.”

I was watching the Cowboys-Lions game on TV the other night, when one of the commentators, Troy Aikman—himself a Hall of Fame Cowboys quarterback from the 90s—made an observation in praise of the current Dallas QB, Dak Prescott. “He’s seeing the field really well right now,” Troy said.

I don’t. It’s a “lane thing” for me. On a normal working week (or working day), I definitely psych myself  into a working lane, by which I mean a narrowly-focused channel that excludes all serious distraction.

I did a podcast last week with psychotherapist Terri Cole. Do you know her?

We’ve been talking for the past two posts about starting a New Project before we’ve finished the Project We’re Working On Now.