The solitude creates an environment for quality thinking. I can't do anything else when I run.
The president of a design firm who works 70 travel heavy hours a week, turns to high speed biking for release.
Some people drink, some smoke, some carouse -- I keep myself active.
A musician I know has lost 30 pounds in 2 months keeping himself active with weight training, biking, swimming. He packs it in around a full course load, household duties and art projects, the latest involving digital photography, photoshop and paint on fabric.
When I work on something with my hands, I think about things differently.
I swim in water or in air. The air swim happens in performance when listeners have brought their solitude to bare. They come for the music, nothing less. Composition, practice, recording, marketing -- all this informs a moment of release that may last an hour or more. Intimacy gathers in a hall of strangers wrapped in the sweet sweat of a song, unwinding.
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