Out of the Blue Landscape. A place that’s Outside of the Box.
Thinking about Thinking outside the Box. This is the direction I try to point myself to when I feel creatively congested — stuck. Wanting to break out of a space where I keep running into myself – my same old self. I want to just to allow the unknown, the uncertainty to perform so I can detach from my narrow expectations. “To be more than I have become” is my favorite quote from The Lion King. To stop holding on to what I have already done, tried or failed. Maybe this thought is surfacing because of all of the personal cleaning and clearing I’ve been doing recently. It’s come to my mind that if the box is full of “stuff” then there may not be a place outside of it to go without there being some kind of strings attached to what I keep holding on to – coveting. Do I just continue to mindlessly fill it with my “Ordinary” and stay too comfortable with – comfortable? The waiting territory “Out of the Box” is where “Out of the Blue” can kick in and bring something new and unexpected. I like hearing myself say “Wow, I sure didn’t see that coming” when land in new place.
Thinking outside the box requires throwing out the manual, the Standard Operating Procedure and too much carry-on baggage. It needs to be empty of rules and attachment. Thinking Outside of the box is an open invitation to out-of-the-blue expansion.