Work with the familiar

Start with the list you made in "Ingredients" -- this will be the source material, the jumping-off-point for what you make next. Now, you will transform your list into a new creation / translate your list into a new medium.

Make a creation in your 'fluent' mode. That is, if you're a writer, you're going to write something. If you're a choreographer, you're going to choreograph something. A performer? You'll improvise a performance. Film something, photograph something, stop-motion-animate something. Let's see it.

The title of this something will be "Personal Ritual to Start Work" -- it will be 1-3 minutes in duration.

Let it include:

• A tension between reverence and joy (maybe even silliness)

• Repetition of a phrase or motif

• At least one symbol

• At least one of the following: darkness, music/sound, text from a found source, silence, surprise

• What is the need, the hunger that is calling from your list? Let that drive your creation.

Put your phone on Do Not Disturb. Give yourself an hour. Make a thing.

Choose a way to document it. Share that documentation here (I hope!).