What is here now

For months, I haven’t been able to write much of any music, and the inner world has been emotionally silent. If there was a straightforward cause, I don’t know it. This has been changing recently, and I also can’t tell you exactly why. But one of the things that I know seems to have moved things along is bringing the focus to the present moment. It’s a pretty concept, like meditation or detachment or whatever folks are nodding and “mmm”-ing to these days, but what does it look like in the context of making…