{"id":635,"date":"2015-11-27T02:50:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T02:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/songwritersplayground.com\/?p=635"},"modified":"2015-11-27T02:50:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T02:50:46","slug":"spiritual-transformation-through-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songwritersplayground.com\/?p=635","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Transformation Through Crap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spiritual Transformation through Crap<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometimes (especially as Saturn returns, according to my astrologist friend) I feel I\u2019m going mad. I don\u2019t write 24 hours a day \u2013 there are other pressing concerns like \u201cwhere do I buy a battery for this watch I once thought was so terrific\u201d, and \u201cwhat\u2019s the least repulsive way to give my doctor a poop sample?<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parasites are everywhere, waiting to suck the life force out of you. You HAVE TO reserve time for restorative activity so you can transcend the crap or better yet, turn it into gold. Is there a technology for that? \u00a0You bet. It\u2019s called Arts Alchemy 101; grab your mouse, keys and let me show you the curriculum.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You want transformation? \u00a0I don\u2019t care how composed you look at your day job; a seething cauldron of emotion is right there under the surface, and you\u2019d be foolish not to choose how and when it erupts.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everything that happens to you (and by osmosis, everyone else), thrilling and rotten, delightful or irritating, is grist for your artistic mill. \u00a0Daily events are the bric-a-brac you will piece together to make your sculpture, your symphony. \u00a0Replacing the battery and mailing off the poop specimen is part of your unique story, the one you literally weave from all the crap you go through. \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, waste not want not. \u00a0Notice all things around you, take notes, and at the end of the day, build the story. \u00a0Shit happens, make something of it, and voila, you\u2019ve got your spiritual transformation. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spiritual Transformation through Crap Sometimes (especially as Saturn returns, according to my astrologist friend) I feel I\u2019m going mad. 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