Jan Phillips

To be an aritst is not to wait for others to define us, but to define ourselves, claim our lives…

We are vulnerable to fear only when we leave the present.  If I drift into the past, my regrets surge up, my memories of failing and forsaking.  If I shift into the future, I meet with doubt and delusion, fear of what's to come, what I'm not capable of controlling.  It's in the present moment that I belong.

We have a funny concept of time in this culture.  We revere it as we revere money, yet we rarely spend any of it on ourselves.  We complain that we can't make what time we have go around, yet day after day we spend our allotment doing things we don't really want to be doing.