Mining Mode

January 15th, 2026

First I shall become aware being Art and movement while keeping breathe relaxed.

It is not fair with what other worldly ease and adroit that right handed cursive could be so different and also feel so right.

Very fun but now it's time to go into mining mode. Push in the sport button and no more Sunday drives. All the typical checks should be made. Good posture easy and deep breath. Consistent sizing of lettering and spacing and a good pace so it feels more like a purposeful run and ensuring hand is loose but steady and focused on working at the correct angle and pressure that paper and instrument ask for and just keep on writing working at a pace of minutes per page and pages per session. Beautifully written pages with the hope of striking some unique content or thought or reflection and living the examined life at least having captured and sampled from the closest source to that which is mystical in a regular and practiced way. The process itself becomes its own meditation and part of the exercise is to be observer and scribe and machine for what puts together these messages and words. It marvels me anything makes much sense from these sessions as they could seemingly amble and end up anywhere down numerous alleys and rabbit holes and often it is most comfortable to slow things down to the point where my muscles and breath are comfortable and I can feel the ink coming out of the pen as an extension of my being with the same feeling I have when expressing tears and leaving parts of my human beingness leaking into the universe from the machine not to mention the mental forces and energies. And to not be caught ever with what to write but rather be able to give in to the good feeling of writing and also tapping into the magic of the creative and the unknown. That is what I enjoy when I draw completely original and somewhat random art which like this writing has both a look and feel and style all its own but in the picture version you get a lot of information very quickly whereas in writing which is much the opposite and often not as open to interpretation serving instead to instruct or argue a position or explain some thing

Zoom. Zoom. Zoom. Zoom oo oo oo oom and VRoom! Waiting for my conversation to be summarized be like zoom zoom go vroom vroom. And the writing flows from mind to page and from ink to word. And the feeling with the right pen on familiar paper. The smooth rolling of the ball on the bleached white college rule page.

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