Keeping a beat in the present tense

There is no time other than now. The past is a completely subjective combination of memories, impressions, and interpretations skewed and enhanced by human emotion. The future, stated most simply, is unpredictable. And in saying it is unpredictable, I mean that no one knows what is going to happen. The future is a concept, a reason to do or not do something. To forecast, project or invent a future path is to completely neglect the power of randomness and the unpredictability of free will. The only time that exists, with our conscious participation, is the present moment.

It is in this truth that I found it a little easier to go out on a limb recently, and do something that would normally intimidate me. Rob, Chris, Adam and I jammed. We, together, played instruments and made music. Maybe three or four times in my life have I actually had the courage, or maybe just lacked the inhibition, to play the drums knowing other people could not only hear me, but were going to play instruments that they knew how to play, at the same time. This is a very intense experience. It goes way beyond the place where I feel comfortable and hurtles me into an atmosphere of exposure in a massive vastness, like the way the universe feels. It is only an example, and that's not to say whether or not it actually sounded good.

But you who are reading this, and I both know, that's not the point.

(In these photos are Christofuh and Rob. Adam, who had been playing the accordion had already left.)
Thanks Fellas : )