Attention Inventory: Riffing, Rare Jams, Rice Paper

A list of 4 present tense preoccupations

Nothing succeeds without taking stock — below, an a la carte selection of some recent personal preoccupations, shout-outs to Big Reality, Agnes B., and deep cut confitures.

As with all Moon-isms, this is intended for reading through the lens of your own experience, so…look around and make your own if you’d like.

1. Against Intuition

While the majority of my job involves being in conversation with other people, I prefer to “work” alone, dreading when someone suggests a spontaneous brainstorm or edit. While the context varies, I am mostly hired to translate someone else’s #vision into tangible ideas; to distill abstraction into concrete language. And frankly I’ve always considered the process of how I get there to be no one else’s business. 

Recently I have been working with another writer whose approach is the opposite. I respect their process, and our cumulative possibilities, and have been actively pushing myself to…riff in real time? For someone who has built a life around self-desig…