“When it comes down to it, Mick and I wrote our first song at the kitchen table. If we had been thinking about how the public was going to react, we’d never have made a record”  

                                                                                                                Keith Richards in his autobiography LIFE.

Lately I have been thinking the worst thing that happens to us big people  as we age is we begin to over think every thing we do. We are scared of falling and falling down, aware of people looking at us, what they will think, how we will appear, what the world will say about us.

Greatness, or at the least,  happiness, seems to come from risk taking and that self effacing quality combined with the  lack of thinking anyone will notice and a self confidence that if they do- who cares.  It is like a magic potion for creativity and authenticity.

I try like the devil to drink it up.

If you look  at great things people have done  and great lives people have lived, it would seem much of it had an air of un self consciousness and an innocence of spirit.

How do we hold on to that?

I do so many un self conscious things in a day, I can’t count them. Most of them are likely mistakes. But sleeping in my car, quite un selfconciously, is no mistake and I do that now. Click here to read about my sunrise naptime