Today is Friday which means I’ve written everyday of the work week and I’ll need to take the weekend off. Breaks are required to get some life experience, if I write everyday then I’m always thinking about what I might write about next. Yesterday I mentioned the importance of time off and it extends to mental activities. At first it seems like I could break everything down into mental and physical activities, maybe so, but there is depth I think is worth uncovering. Other activities that came to mind were reading and piano. Reading seems all mental, physically I’m sitting still, my will get tired though. Piano may seem physical, I’m uncertain what the physicality is since I won’t be out of breath from piano, perhaps the muscles used are too small and unfit compared to my large muscles. There is also mental activity in piano, I’ve said music is math in motion. The five fingers on each hand are numbered left to right, currently I’m working on a pattern with the right hand that goes 1,2,5,4,3,2,3,4,1. Juggling those numbers and the slightly different pattern for the other hand takes mental rehearsing before sitting at the piano. All that is even before considering Keys which are letters that are used like numbers; C,D,E,F,G,A,B. I’m not proficient enough to start explaining the relationships between Keys. With the same notes on a piano for hundreds of years we’re still making new music.
Chris' Morning Pages 