Don’t Lose your Capacity for Astonishment

While I did especially love the videos with David Carson and Stefan Sagmeister, Milton Glaser, with whom I was unfamiliar before this series, impressed me not only with his art, but also with his philosophies.

So often in my life, I get lost in the “third act,” whether it’s playing the clarinet, writing poetry, studying Japanese, or even playing video games. Although loss of interest, or perhaps more accurately shifting interest, largely influences it, for me personally, worrying and stressing over minutia (even right now, I’m nitpicking every word) creates a thick, at times impenetrable fog. I’ll manage to escape it, only to find myself stuck again. It’s a vicious circle.

Rather than fixating or obsessing over every detail, I need to revel in astonishment, which, yes, I’m going to mention it again, is what happened when I read “Stitch Bitch.”

“Worrying solves nothing,” is something Glaser and I both needed to hear from the taxi buddha. I need to hear it on a regular basis, actually.