Jeff you raise some good points, there. I think one of the ways that you fit creative flow in with flexibility (so that you can respond to the rest of the world when it calls upon you) is to find a way to think of these "interruptions" as things that can use to inspire your creative flow, meaning, interest, and challenge just as much as the project you've immersed yourself in. I can often find a way to apply my curiosity and cleverness to everyday situations that arise throughout the day, so that it doesn't really feel like an interruption when my husband (who's desk is right next to mine) decides to fill me in on all of the things that annoy him about some random politician he happens to be reading about, or when the construction workers from the apartment next door knock on my door to ask if they can heat up their lunch in my microwave, or when a squirrel sits outside my window and adorably struggles to eat a piece of toast that's bigger than she is. I usually can appreciate things like these, even when they aren't immediately applicable to my current project, if I can think of them as little reminders from the universe that it's not all about me, that everyone else has little projects in life that as just as important as mine are, and that my big lifelong project, which takes precidence over the little projects, is to bring more love and beauty and compassion into the world :-)
Peace, Love, and Bicycles,
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