There was a guy on stage yesterday, he read some things he’d written that took twenty years to finish while he was working at a gas station in Oklahoma. We were enthralled the whole time.
Tomorrow he’ll drive out to a cabin with a plan to stay there alone for a year, then a month. Then he’ll be ready to go home after five days but he’ll stay the whole month. Then he’ll start checking his email again, once every few days, and stay the whole year, and more, out of habit.
Once you know you’ve done something a lot of people really like, it takes a good deal of time to find your balance again. Suddenly you are standing on a thing that is very large and is always falling gracefully sideways. This thing is a crowd of people, most of whom are imaginary. If you focus on your posture and your breathing, you can find your balance, but you need to have learned this ahead of time.
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