{"id":1013,"date":"2016-05-06T09:51:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T16:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2024-07-02T18:38:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T01:38:00","slug":"brain-silence-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/personal-life\/brain-silence-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain Silence Over"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAs I mentioned in my February 29th post, my brain has been silent. Very silent. So, I went silent. It’s been months. Literally. It’s now May, so the silence lasted all March and April of 2016, a very long time in my brain’s measure of productive exploits. Never one for idleness, I set about some much neglected projects–all physical–and practiced my martial arts and my flute repertoire. …And I pretty much stayed off the Net. No point to participating when there’s nothing to contribute. And the brain remained…silent.<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, my book sales took a dive. But, then, all on their own, sales started to take off, again. I watched. Occasionally. Maybe once or twice a month. Did nothing.<\/p>\n

Two months after the silence began, my brain finally came out of its self-imposed retreat. I’m not sure why. I just know when it happened. I was able to write, again. I was able to create art. I called Anita Lewis, a friend of mine, and warned her. Because I’m writing on the zentao books–DLKeur writing as DLKeur. And it ain’t fiction. And she’s my beta reader.<\/p>\n

Here’s the kicker, though. My brain, which I cherish, has never gone silent for this long. Never. Now that it’s…now that I am done processing whatever it was that was being processed (and I still don’t know what that was or is), there’s a certain resolve there that I’ve not felt quite so completely and uniquely ever before.<\/p>\n

It’s interesting, this feeling of resolve, this feeling of utter confidence in me, in my focus, in my ‘way’ of being-doing. It’s interesting because I live my life on the seamless seam, on The Edge, and that Edge now has a firmament that I’ve never experienced quite like this.<\/p>\n

There’s this uncanny fearlessness–a surety–that boggles me. While nothing in the future is set, I know I’m set. For life. For all that Life may present.<\/p>\n

It’s wonderful.<\/p>\n

It’s eerie.<\/p>\n

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