I recall being a kid, spending hours hunched over my Korg Trinity (I know, I know), clicking and clacking, until I churned out a song. These days I create in small deliberate steps and don’t allow myself to get into flow. It has also become mechanical, and for an outcome. It has become clear that I have been forgetting that this was supposed to be fun. No, not fun, but cathartic and meaningful. Creating just for the sake of creating, for some reason has fallen by the wayside. The necessity to understand the technical and business aspects of producing music has normalized stress. Time to come back to one. Time to create art.