Tea: Pu Erh Poe
Music: King Crimson, "Sleepless" (Tony Levin Mix)
Time: Night.
The theme of the past several days has been "do-overs" -- rewrites and revisions and retoolings, oh my!
Tearing something up -- or down -- and starting over from half-scratch is never a pleasant undertaking. Sometimes, though, it has to be done -- and it's better to hear, "There's good material here that needs reworking," than, "This is crap. Go away."
Nothing is ever truly unwritten or rewritten, once someone else has read it. Human memories don't erase as easily as computer memories. If they did, I'd carry around a reallllllllllllllllllly big magnet all the time. ("Dude, you still owe me 20 bucks. No, you never paid me back. What magnet?")
But if all falls right ("the Lord willin' and the creek don't rise," which is Midwestern for "inshallah"), what emerges will maximize the strengths and shore up the weaknesses of what went before.
Time for more tea, typing and Tony.
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