{"id":1072,"date":"2010-03-05T11:15:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T15:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2010\/03\/05\/renaissance-man\/"},"modified":"2010-03-10T20:03:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T00:03:25","slug":"renaissance-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/1072","title":{"rendered":"Renaissance man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">March Exercise V &#8212;day five&#8212;<\/span> It began as a typical M-Ex day, feeling deprived of sleep, but eager to harness an elusive stream of motivation. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowtrader.net\/squawkbox.shtml\">The Shadow Trader<\/a> was on his game, and by late morning I\u2019d made some key portfolio adjustments before heading to the pool for a workout. In the afternoon, the ever-present tug-of-war between concentration and interruption presented itself when Bruce needed my help with his car repairs, just as I was hitting my stride with the bank campaign. For me the emotional challenge of capturing an idea is nothing compared to dealing with the threat of losing momentum in the midst of a successful creative process. I don\u2019t work on cars. I\u2019ve never worked on cars. I hate to work on cars. But there you have it\u2014what the exercise is all about\u2014because this is what every artistic individual has faced since that first cave-wall painter was furiously dragged by his hair to the mastodon-skinning site. Just think of all the distractions my Grandfather Seitz experienced as a father of eleven children (seven boys!) while he was involved in painting murals, organizing choirs, directing plays, or practicing the organ. I think of this now, after listening to Mombo give credit to her parents when we all gathered as a Clan to honor her as a truly exceptional mother. She measures herself against them in the same way we hold our own wisdom and maturity up to her example. How many more March rituals shall I require to meet that high standard?\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Today&#8217;s sight bite&#8212;<\/span> My mother in front of her birthday candles <span style=\"font-style: italic\">&#8212;c-l-i-c-k&#8212;<\/span> as diminutive as her sisters before her.\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Previously on M-Ex&#8212;<\/span> Rest, focus, distraction, flexibility\u2014some things don\u2019t change. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2007\/03\/05\/awareness-of-the-drift\/\"><em>(3\/5\/07)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Tomorrow&#8212;<\/span> Rest and regroup&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/pop_seitz.jpg' alt='John \u201cPop\u201d Seitz'  title='John \u201cPop\u201d Seitz'\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March Exercise V &#8212;day five&#8212; It began as a typical M-Ex day, feeling deprived of sleep, but eager to harness an elusive stream of motivation. The Shadow Trader was on his game, and by late morning I\u2019d made some key portfolio adjustments before heading to the pool for a workout. In the afternoon, the ever-present [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,71,26,18,37,23,34,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}