Just Make Something

Create like the wind.

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In the act of creativity, the artist lets go the self control which he normally clings to, and is open to riding the wind. Something almost always happens to startle us during the act of creating, but not unless we let go our adult intellectual control and become as open as little children. This does not mean to set aside or discard the intellect, but to understand that it is not to become a dictator, for when it does we are closed off from revelation.

— Madeleine L’Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith & Art

I first fell in love with music in 1996 when I discovered Weezer’s Buddy Holly video on our family computer. (It was included in the Windows 95 release as one of its pre-packaged media items.) I remember watching it over and over again, amazed that such a band could have existed in the 70s when Happy Days was produced.

It was the first time I discovered music that resonated with every cell in my body.