The Tao of Bob Dylan
To be a true trail blazer, you’d better be singing, talking, raising awareness, making art around things no one is daring to act upon.
It might be something on many minds, but who’s taking it farther?
You don’t have to be ahead of everyone, you just have to be in everyone’s head, and agile enough to draw the important bits out and polish them up. How would one commit such a feat?
Go so far inside. Blur the lines. Understand your core, and the key to the world drops from above to the floor, right in front of your door. The one you should be walking through as you scan the rows and rows of possibilities.
Then look outside. See with eyes belonging to a starving hunter. Survival sharpens his appetite and he cannot afford to be lazy; to think lazy thoughts, make lazy moves, or pass the buck to someone marginally less lazy.
Wrote this a few months ago and saved it as a draft. Feels like a good time to publish…