TUTA Retreat!!! So much fun.*

But the point here is Wain asked us:

What are we waiting for?

And now I wish to experience the question, wash it around in my mouth, and spit or swallow according to my mood.

What a lovely way to put things! Waiting is not inherently a bad thing. As Gandhi said, “The importance to life is not to increase its speed.”** Sometimes you wait, sometimes you don’t, and if you don’t want to wait, often you don’t have to.

At any rate, Wain contrasted it with the word “stuck.” Stuck leaves you nowhere to go. It’s a state of being. You have to actively hunt for ways to climb out of your hole. But if you’re waiting, that in itself can be an active thing. I imagine being on the tips of my toes, listening for the cue that I need to hear to continue on my way, whether “my way” is picking up a first draft, or recording in the booth, or finishing a visual art, baking bread, or going for a walk or run.

But are those cues not always necessary? Many times they’re illusions.

In TUTA, we don’t ask “how?” We ask “when?” I’m really good at asking when. It can be really annoying. But maybe it’s a good annoying.

I challenge the world to annoy itself more.***

 

*Holy hell, Adam helped me better the site and the words are so honking large.

**Thank you, my Ben.

***Especially on the national level. Many of us are waiting for equality, or a better education system, or consequences for the powerful. And the people who are not waiting are slooowly dragging us into the 21st century like a person pulling a semi with their teeth. But if everyone quit waiting…