holding onto the blank canvas until we are ready

"my sweet friend said its like
someone is handing you a white canvas.
you don’t have to make a mark on it right away.
you can just be with it for awhile.

funny how this never occurred to me before.
why stick something there just for the sake
of not having it empty?"

"i want to live a life
without notes.
without outside influence.
without evidence.

just me and a blank page,
figuring out what to paint next…"

from http://dancingmermaid.com/blog/