Another brilliant piece from a GUNNAS WRITING MASTERCLASS write
Catherine has set us a task. “You’ve got six months to live. What are you going to do with this time, and what’s stopping you?”
I’ve only got 6 months left to do what I really want to do…so I am going to:
1) Paint again. This will happen cos the studio is now set up, ready to use.
2) Write every day. Just need to get off Facebook.
3) Play my theremin every day.
4) Play my new drum-kit every day.
5) Play my keyboard every day.
6) Record music and soundtracks.
7) Make short films again.
8) Go rowing in my beautiful red canoe every day.
9) Go swimming/running every day.
10) Get my awesome new Sydney man to leave the city and live with me for the next 6 months.
11) Open my house and inspiring surrounds for one day a week to my good friends and family members to come and play music, make art, films, swim, row, fish, balter, bird-watch, play or chill out…like an artist-in -residence set up. Document it.
12) Run a monthly “Let’s Balter” event on the riverside where I now live.
13) Record my mum telling me her life stories on my new iPad.
14) Do yoga daily.
15) Continue to teach music and literacy in the local school one day a week.
What’s stopping me? Two reasons.
1) I’m already doing these things but not regularly enough, mainly cos I’m addicted to gathering information and sharing on Facebook. So new resolution: Facebook will now be considered a treat rather than a need.
2) Money needs to come in to pay my rent, which is why I need to find more teaching work. One day a week is not enough to pay my rent in this beautiful new location on the river. And to buy my house which I really love, I need even more dosh. Which means I need to come up with a cunning new plan….which will generate money on a sustainable level.
But as I only have six months left to live, fuck it. I’ll keep renting.