worked such that she would fart at the moment it was time for her to hit the stage.
Approaching or presenting your art or craft should be a lot like that relationship or dream you want to be yours: With the same kind of nervousness and excitement and everything you did to get it, you do+ feel the same to keep it.
Your art or craft should always be a little “scary” for you-even if others can’t see it. It should scare you to humility-and if not, it’s not big enough, because it should always be bigger than you. If it’s not, you’re over it (figuratively and literally).
Despite how confident or commanding of the stage many artists are (regardless the medium), before we do what we do, some of us do have odd, incessant, 
and sometimes belaboring rituals that no one ever knows about.
I know I have two odd rituals but I never tell anyone. Whereas when I was writing (novels) pre-Internet/social media, I had a 4 a.m. time and set of habitual rituals before starting and during writing that now, (my ritual) has gotten a little more “odd” (now that I write with my doors wide open-even though I literally write in private).
When your art/craft is bigger than you, you always submit to it-not the other way around. The unfortunate part about that is, meditating and submitting to it doesn’t tap its watch and say: “Well…I’m only gonna hold you for 5 minutes.” When it’s bigger than you, you deal with it before giving it to the people. And ‘it’ doesn’t tell you in advance when it’s done meeting with you before practice or even before show–and for some: even live show.
Given Lauryn’s late-to-stage track record, considering what happened at the Grammys on Monday (showing up Monday morning-early for rehearsal and too late to perform the Monday night live show), do you think she may have an ‘odd’ or belaboring ritual just before shows we just might not know about?
For REAL (from heart/from the core artists) giving your art away today, has a different feel now (today) than it did long before it was so easy to put it on ‘display.’ It’s a different level that ‘from the heart art’ artists have to get used to.
Spitfire .
Media Maestro .
Writing Rhinoceros .
